The technology which once produced the first synthetic human today includes the simulation of human behaviour processes, associated with consciousness and the emotions. When a computer creates artificial life, its synthetic creatures demonstrate the behaviour patterns of real living beings. This book investigates the technological advances which allow artificial life to be placed within a virtual setting, where the human user can meet and interact with synthetic beings?people, animals or plants?in a complete simulation of the real world. It introduces new concepts such as artificial consciousness, artificial presence, artificial autonomy and artificial perception; and discusses important results in the development of immersive and auditory virtual environments, and co-operative work.
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Artificial life refers to all the methods that try to recreate living organisms and creatures by computers. Virtual reality is the immersion of human beings in virtual worlds. This landmark book demonstrates artificial life in virtual reality. It introduces new concepts such as artificial consciousness, presence, autonomy and perception. Includes 12 color pages.
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polycentral horizontal order, neural state machine, modular maps, sound field model, inner neurons, artificial autonomy, iconic learning, tactile feedback systems, sound pressure signals, force feedback systems, behavioral animation, immersive system, virtual fingers, target retrieval, artificial consciousness, virtual hand, virtual humans, perceptual position, cellular complexes, immersive virtual environments, topological operations, secondary axes, vertical order, exploratory procedures, binary decision tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Magnenat Thalmann, Virtual Treadmill, Computer Animation, Department of Computer Science, International Workshop, New York, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, University of London, Applied Acoustics, Simulating Life of Virtual Plants, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Chapel Hill, Computer Society Press, Distributed Behavioral Model, King Archidej, Panel Proceedings, Scientific American, Silicon Graphics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Using Three-Dimensional New!
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For about 20 years, computer-generated images have been created for films, generics and advertising. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
polycentral horizontal order, neural state machine, modular maps, sound field model, inner neurons, artificial autonomy, iconic learning, tactile feedback systems, sound pressure signals, force feedback systems, behavioral animation, immersive system, virtual fingers, target retrieval, artificial consciousness, virtual hand, virtual humans, perceptual position, cellular complexes, immersive virtual environments, topological operations, secondary axes, vertical order, exploratory procedures, binary decision tree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Magnenat Thalmann, Virtual Treadmill, Computer Animation, Department of Computer Science, International Workshop, New York, Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, University of London, Applied Acoustics, Simulating Life of Virtual Plants, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Chapel Hill, Computer Society Press, Distributed Behavioral Model, King Archidej, Panel Proceedings, Scientific American, Silicon Graphics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Using Three-Dimensional New!
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- Computer Graphics Using Open GL (2nd Edition) by Francis S. Hill on page 145, and page 187
- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (The Virtual Laboratory) by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz on page 36, and page 59
- Neural Networks (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) by Hervé Abdi on page 99, and page 113
- Room Acoustics by Heinrich Kuttruff on page 171, and page 209
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- Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine by Alison Adam on page 142, and Back Matter
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- HyperReality: Paradigm for the Third Millenium by John Tiffin on page 76
- God and the Universe by Arthur Gibson in Back Matter
- Bioinformatics: German Conference on Bioinformatics, GCB' 96, Leipzig, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 1996. Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Ralf Hofestädt on page 27
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