Abstract

I have created an automatic cinematography system for an interactive virtual environment. This system controls a virtual camera and several virtual lights in a three-dimensional "world" inhabited by a group of autonomous and user-controlled characters. The virtual camera chooses the perspective from which the world is displayed on a flat screen. The lights control how the three-dimensional digital objects in the world are illuminated. By dynamically changing the camera and the lights, my system facilitates the interaction of humans with this world and displays the emotional content of the digital scene.

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