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UCLA Adds Physics to Prat-falls
BaltoAaron writes "CNN.com is reporting on Petros Faloutsos , a UCLA scientist, that has developed a program that creates animation based almost solely on physics. Faloutsos "believes his animation program will one day allow virtual stunt artists to replace their flesh-and-blood counterparts in performing otherwise deadly feats of derring-do." "It's the Holy Grail of character animation. Everybody wants to do it, but there's not a whole lot of it out there right now.""
Havent the video game makers created a program that creates animation based almost solely on physics yet? ;)
Sure, there's nothing I want more than to see a film where someone fires a gun at Keanu Reeves, and then he turns into a "Grand Theft Auto 3" style character made of polygons and falls to the ground with blood squirting out of his aorta.
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Now we'll get to see the three stodges remade with Cowboy Neal, John Katz, and CmrdTaco punching each other using computer physics. What a great world.
Wow, all one-year-old SIGGRAPH papers should be slashdot stories.
Now the minister of propaganda will be able to artificially render himself in front of an artificially rendered, fully clothed, sculpture, and show scenes from the latest battle in our war on the world.
Seriously, I'm wondering what will happen on those fronts when we have the technology at hand to truly fool a viewing audience. At least right now I know that everything I see on TV is real!
He is the civilian equivalent to General Protection Fault (and coincidentally, his nephew). Rumour has it that he was in the same class at the academy as Kernel Panic, but for some reason he was discharged. It's all very hush-hush.
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I thought Terry Gilliam was the Holy Grail of anima.. oh nevermind..
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no thats Lazlo Hollyfeld. 30 points higher on your test and you think his name is joe laszlo?
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