36. Artificial Life for Graphics, Animation, Multimedia, and Virtual Reality Full Day / Intermediate http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~dt/siggraph96-course This course investigates the increasingly important role that artificial life concepts are playing across the breadth of computer graphics, including image synthesis, modeling, animation, multimedia, and virtual reality. Attendees are systematically introduced to techniques for realistically modeling and animating living things. They also explore graphics techniques that emulate phenomena fundamental to biological organisms, such as biomechanics, behavior, growth, and evolution. Topics include modeling and animation of plants, animals, and humans; behavioral animation; communication and interaction with autonomous agents in virtual worlds; and artificial evolution for graphics and animation. Who Should Attend Graphics researchers and practitioners, including animators and VR enthusiasts, who seek a close encounter with "life" at the leading edge of graphics modeling. Organizer Demetri Terzopoulos University of Toronto Lecturers Bruce Blumberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz University of Calgary Craig Reynolds Silicon Studios Karl Sims Genetic Arts Daniel Thalmann Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Schedule 8:30 am: Introduction - Terzopoulos 8:45 am: Artificial Plants - Prusinkiewicz 9:45 am: Artificial Evolution for Graphics and Animation - Sims 10:00 am: Break 10:15 am: Artificial Evolution (continued) - Sims 11:00 am: Behavioral Animation - Reynolds Noon: Break 1:30 pm: Artificial Animals - Terzopoulos 2:30 pm: Artificial Humans in Virtual Worlds - Thalmann 3:00 pm: Break 3:15 pm: Artificial Humans (continued) - Thalmann 3:45 pm: Interactive Autonomous Agents for VR - Maes 4:45 pm: Questions & Answers - All

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