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Walking is one of the most characteristic motions of humans: the walking animation is indispensable for any game featuring humans or human-like characters. We propose an efficient walk engine for the reactive animation of biped characters of any size and proportions. The movement can be controlled

. Since points are always drawn towards well-defined locations, the overshooting problem of explicit integration schemes is eliminated. The versatility of the approach in terms of object representations that can be handled, the efficiency in terms of memory and computational complexity

In this paper, we present an integration framework for heterogeneous motion generators. The objective is to outline issues that are currently easily solved in professional post-processing systems used in film and game production but which cannot be transposed as is to real-time systems

. Oblivious transfer protocols, first introduced by Rabin [R], are conceptually very simple, yet can be used to implement a wide variety of protocols([EGL],[BCR1],[K]). The versatility of these games amply motivates a wider study of the power of simple two-party games. In this paper, we present some general

We present a powerful and versatile new sufficient condition for the second player (the

Why deformable bodies? Looks more real than rigid bodies Most objects in the real world deform, true rigid bodies don’t physically exist Open up new possibilities in gaming experiences GeForce 8800 can handle the computations necessary for deformable body simulation entirely on the GPU Simulation

device which then executes associated commands or further interprets the device’s movements. Possible applications include remote control of various consumer electronics (TV-set, cell-phone, MP3-player), access control to machines and buildings, a virtual laser pointer, and mobile gaming. Bluewand

are controlled by hierarchical state machine executed on an onboard Pocket PC. Information about the current state of the dynamic environment in a soccer game is obtained from two directed cameras with wide and narrow angles. During RoboCup 2006 the robot demonstrated the fastest walking of all kid- and teen

We present the design of a new badge platform for facilitating interaction in large groups of people. We have built this device to be very flexible in order to host a wide variety of interactions in the areas where wearable and social computing converge, from game environments to meetings