Scratch

A scratchpad location for pages/papers of interest, and random ideas that I've been generating for a pet project, or breaking up of a pet project. This is unlikely to have sample graphics on it, but is more of a temporary holding place while my own computer is in storage.

Links Todo

Pages, papers, whatever I want to read more in depth.

• Artificial Animals for Computer Animation: Biomechanics, Perception, Locomotion and Behaviour. Xiaoyuan Tu (1996). Thesis for PhD in CS at U of T.
  3 - 5 species fish animation/interaction. Q: Newer research? What about other creatures? Who supervised?
• MIT Artificial Life Journal
  May inspire locations, people, topics
• OpenGL Tutorials
  An alternative to NeHe
• Badger Tracking
  Article on modern animal tracking.
• Lizard Behaviour
  Group at Harvard studying lizard behaviour.
• Image Processing Algorithms
  Collection of interesting Image Processing Algorithms
• AI Pseudocode
  Pseudo code in AI: A Modern Approach (I own the book; I don't feel bad)
• 2D to 3D (through movies)
  Slashdot article, containing further links, including this, this, this, this (which I've seen before), and this. Then there's google, and stuff from U. of Kiel (Germany)

Of Interest...

• Terminology: Artificial Life, Biomechanics, Animal Behaviour, Evolutionary Behaviour
• People: Craig Reynolds (Boids), Christian Jacobs (Evolvica), Chris Hecker (Spore), Ken Perlin (Soften computer personality by noise)
• Random: Retrievr (Flickr image search)

Ideas

• Inspired by this (Artist Dick Termes, referenced in "Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion"). Could you take a sphere and animate a storyline? Characters and animations restricted to the spherical coordinates (likely planar on the sphere)?

Coding

• Conversion of 2D image into 3D models:
  • 2D Image (cel shading equivalent) discontinuity processing for boundaries and outlines.
  • 3D point extraction based on inverse light calculations.
  • Mesh formation based on nearest points computations.
  • Texture mapping by region extraction from image.