The Challenge of Animating the Artist's Dream
Figure 1 - Artist's lament: "It never looks quite the same in the game…"
Source for Michelangelo's David: Digital Imagery © copyright 2001 PhotoDisc, Inc.
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Smoother Animation With Intel® Core™ i7 Processors
by Steve Pitzel
Introduction: Disguising seams in NURBS models
Today is a great day to be a 3D animator! It wasn't long ago that animators were stuck with creating stiff-jointed, scarred-looking automatons. These characters had all the beauty and grace of Frankenstein. Rendering engines couldn't handle deformations, or high-level geometry, and polygons ruled the gaming world. The computing power for creating fluid movement and seamless-looking joints simply wasn't there.
Multi-Core Simulation of Soft-Body Characters using Cloth
Soft-body physics is an increasingly popular feature in videogames. This article shows how, with the additional processing power of a multi-core CPU, entire soft-body characters can be created using cloth simulation techniques.
Rendering grass with Instancing in DirectX 10
Introduction
Rendering realistic looking grass in real-time is hard, especially on consumer graphics hardware because of its geometric complexity. The intent of this article and source provided is to introduce the concept of geometry instancing with Direct3D10 APIs to the reader and show how it can be used to implement a realistic looking grass on consumer graphics hardware.
Using NURBS Surfaces in Real-time Applications
Alternatives to Polygonal Models
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Optimized CPU-based Skinning for 3D Games
Real-time Shadow Casting Using Shadow Volumes
by Jason Bestimt & Bryant Freitag
Geospatial Texture Streaming From Slow Storage Devices
June 2008
© 2008, Id Software, Inc.
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