CAS2001
14/07/2001

Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001

Manchester, UK, September 2-3

EG CAS is a high quality forum for the research in computer-animation and simulation. Created in 1990, the workshop has successfully attracted specialists in this growing field. This year, the workshop will especially cover the modelling and animation of complex phenomena. This includes the modelling of virtual creatures - from their body-parts to the control of their behavior, and the animation of natural phenomena such as water, smoke, clouds, vegetation, etc. The models and the animation techniques may have been designed either in the context of enhanced visual realism or for real-time applications such as Virtual Reality or games.

The workshop will take place just before the Eurographics '2001 Conference, at the same location. As such, it will provide an important opportunity to researchers planning to attend/present at either event, to spend more time exploring topics of common interest. The workshop will be held in two days, with paper presentation and discussion sessions. The final EG workshop approval is pending. Detailed information about Manchester, travelling and accommodation can be found at the Eurographics'2001 Web page: http://www.eg.org/eg2001/

Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001

Manchester, UK, September 2-3 Advance Program

Sunday September 2

9h Registration

9h30 - 10h30 : Session 1: Motion Capture and Control

* Markerless Motion Capture of Complex Full-Body Movement for Character Animation

       Andrew J. Davison, Jonathan Deutscher andIan D. Reid

*   Implementation of a 3D Virtual Drummer

       Martijn Kragtwijk, Anton Nijholt, Job Zwiers

10h30 - 11h : Coffee break

11h-12h : Session 2 : Deformations for Animation

*   Animating with the ``Multidimensional deformation tool''

           Dominique Bechmann, Mehdi Elkouhen

*   Mixing Triangle Meshes and Implicit Surfaces

          A. Leclercq, S. Akkouche and E. Galin

12h-14h : Lunch

14h-15h30 : Invited talk.

*   Visual Simulation of Smoke and Fire.

          Jos Stam

15h30-16h : Coffee break

16h-17h30 : Session 3: Natural Phenomena

*   Phenomenological Simulation of Brooks

            Fabrice Neyret, Nathalie Praizelin

*   An interactive forest

           Thomas di Giacomo, Stéphane Capo, François Faure

*   Meshes on Fire

           H. Lee, L. Kim, M. Meyer, M. Desbrun

Monday September

9h - 10h30. Session 4 : Physically-based Animation

*   Continuous deformation energy for Dynamic Material Spline subject to finite displacements

           Olivier NOCENT and Yannick Remion

*   Deformed Distance Fields for Simulation of Non-Penetrating Flexible Bodies

            Susan Fisher and Ming C. Lin

*   Real-Time Simulation of Deformation and Fracture of Stiff Materials

            Matthias Muller Leonard McMillan Julie Dorsey  Robert Jagnow

10h30 - 11h. Coeffe break

11h-12h. Session 5 : Hair Animation

*   A Simple Physics Model to Animate Human Hair Modeled in 2D Strips in Real Tim

            Chuan Koon Koh and ZhiyongHuang

* A Layered Wisp Model for Simulating Interactions inside Long Hair

          Eric Plante, Marie-Paule Cani, Pierre Poulin

12h-14h : Lunch

14h- 15h: Session 6 : High Level Motion Planning (part 1)

*   Efficient Multi-Agent Motion Planning

             Okan Arikan, StephenChenney and David A. Forsyth

*   Crowd simulation for interactive virtual environments and VR training systems

  Branislav Ulicny, Daniel Thalmann

15h-15h30: Coffee break

15h30 - 16h30: Session 6 : High level motion planning (part 2)

*   The Orchestration of Behaviours using Resources and Priority Level

            Fabrice Lamarche et Stéphane Donikian

*   Evolution and Cooperation of Virtual Entities with Classifier Systems

            Cédric Sanza, Olivier Heguy and Yves Duthen

http://www.eg.org/eg2001/