Computer Animation: Algorithms & Techniques

In its third edition, Computer Animation is updated to cover the most current techniques, along with the theory and high-level computation that have earned the book a reputation as the best technically-oriented animation resource. Key topics have been expanded, new material has been added and select chapters have been reorganized. Examples animations and chapter projects and exercises are included in a companion website..

The third edition
- Covers the theory, high-level computations, and techniques that animators need to succeed
- Provided the most current, detailed reference to computer animation programming
- Explains the algorithms used for path following, hierarchical kinematic modeling, rigid body dynamics, flocking behavior, particle systems, Collision detection, and more
- Includes new and enhanced material on smoothed particle hydrodynamics, cloth, crowd animation, optimization, and more
- Includes companion website, providing working code in
C and Mathematica; a control program, using OpenGL, with which lab assignment code can easily be interfaced; figures from the text in JPG and PowerPoint formats; and useful links