What kind of animation is described by the following?

• This kind of animation is used in video games, interactive simulations, and movies.
• Direct dynamics algorithms developed in robotics are applied to the dynamic simulation of the human body.
• Animators have little control; they just set up the initial configurations for differential equations.
• Examples include Rigid body simulation soft body simulation, fluid simulation, and particle systems.

What is described by the following (find the correct term)?

Constructing a series of bones (a hierarchical control structure) that is custom-designed to animate characters

Which is NOT one of the categories of physics-based animation?

What is the process of associating each bone in the skeleton with some portion of the character’s visual representation (a group of vertices)?

Who developed the "Boids" program that simulates the flocking behaviour of birds (behavioural animation)? 

There are three approaches to connect a deformable skin to its underlying skeleton. Which one is described by the following?

• These methods are used to overcome the limitation of geometric skin deformation.
• These methods use examples of varying postures and blends them during animation (example-based method).
• These methods are for real-time applications.

• These methods efficiently leverage realistic shapes that come from:

  • The captured skin shape of real people
  • Physically based simulation results
  • Sculpted by skilled designers

Which is NOT true about inverse kinematics?

This behavioural animation technique is used to generate any concept of growth and life development. It uses production-based approach. It can create fascinating tree structures. It is timed and parameterized with conditional and pseudo-stochastic production. What is this technqiue?

What is the technique which is used to convert motion between different skeletons through an intermediate skeleton? (This technique was developed by Dr. Michael Gleicher.)

What kind of animation is used in Dr. Park's burglars' target selection simulation shown in class?

In the simulation, an autonomous character determines its own actions to some extent. The high-level module carries out reasoning while the low-level details are scripted.