Modelling virtual cities dedicated to behavioural animation
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2000
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Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association
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In order to populate virtual cities, it is necessary to specify the behaviour of dynamic entities such as pedestrians or car drivers. Since a complete mental model based on vision and image processing cannot be constructed in real time using purely geometrical information, higher levels of information are needed in a model of the virtual environment. For example, the autonomous actors of a virtual world would exploit the knowledge of the environment topology to navigate through it. In this article, we present a model of virtual urban environments using structures and information suitable for behavioural animations. Thanks to this knowledge, autonomous virtual actors can behave like pedestrians or car drivers in a complex city environment. A city modeler has been designed, using this model of urban environment, and enables complex urban environments for behavioural animation to be automatically produced.
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@article{10.1111:1467-8659.00399,
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
title = {{Modelling virtual cities dedicated to behavioural animation}},
author = {Thomas, Gwenola and Donikian, Stephane},
year = {2000},
publisher = {Blackwell Publishers Ltd and the Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1467-8659},
DOI = {10.1111/1467-8659.00399}
}