Physics Based Animation (Graphics Series)
The booming computer games and animated movie industries continue to drive the graphics community's seemingly insatiable search for increased realism, believability, ad speed. To achieve the quality... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1584503807
ISBN13:9781584503804
Release Date:August 2005
Publisher:Charles River Media
Length:817 Pages
Weight:3.50 lbs.
Dimensions:2.0" x 7.6" x 9.4"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Highly recommended physics book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I've been working in collision detection and rigidbody simulation for several years now and there are not many books that cover stuff needed to get the knowledge to be able to develop a modern physics engine. Rather then filling half of the book with basic linear algebra and stuff that no-one actually uses when developing realtime physics algorithms, this one actually discusses the good stuff. Contact points generation, comparison of collision detection algorithms, iterative solvers, sph fluids, fem deformable etc. Just buy it. Erwin Coumans http://www.continuousphysics.com
need some undergrad physics and maths background
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The authors figure that you are already an animator. You know the rudiments of programming animation in some language, but want to add more realism to the actions in your games. The point of this book is to teach you how to go from understanding simple but useful physics equations to implementing these numerically and efficiently in your game. Probably the most obvious context are the equations of motion - where your objects obey gravity. And they conserve momentum and energy, up to a point. That is, you can build in friction into your system, for more realism. Ideally, all of this should make your game more plausible to a player, by conforming to her real world intuition. The book also gives extensive coverage to collision detection methods. In many games, 2d or 3d, if you have objects moving around, how to quickly see when they might collide? Efficiency is often a key consideration. Having said all this, it probably does help if you have had several undergraduate courses in physics and maths. So that what the book brings up doesn't throw you for a loop.
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