Cyberworlds

ISBN-13: 9784431702078 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 354 str.

T. L. Kunii; A. Luciani; Tosiyasu L. Kunii

Opis

The worlds synthesized in the cyberspaces of networked computers are the theme of Cyberworlds. Cyberspaces have come into prominence with the de velopment of the Internet and are expected to expand drastically with the emergence of national and international information systems. The purpose is to discover the architecture and design of cy of the book Cyberworlds berworlds by synthesizing worlds in cyberspaces. The underlying philosophy is crucial to the success of the architecture, and an initial effort is made to delineate it at the beginning of the book. The book's topics are selected to clarify the issues of the philosophy, architecture, and design of cyberworlds through a wide variety of case studies. The approach presented in the book is thus characterized as synthetic rather than analytic. There already are numbers of books with observations and analyses of cyberworlds. They warn of the danger of widespread crimes and accidents in the cyberworlds, for instance. Without a philosophy and methodologies of how to architecturally design and synthesize the cyber worlds, the worlds in cyberspaces tend to be arbitrarily extended, disordered, and, in extreme cases, criminal. This book is intended to benefit readers by providing them with a possible direction to take in deciding how to synthesize worlds in cyberspaces. Cre ating new worlds in new spaces with almost unlimited dimension and scale is an immense challenge. In principle, anyone at any moment can participate in the creation. The book serves as a creator's reference and also as a design guidebook."

Spis treści

I Foundation.- Theme 1 Philosophy.- 1. The Philosophy of Synthetic Worlds.- 1.1 Synthetic Worlds and the Real World.- 1.2 Visual Abstraction for Complexity Modeling.- 1.3 Material and Information.- 1.4 Multimedia and Synthetic Worlds.- 1.5 Topological Modeling for Visualization.- 1.6 Mental Modeling of Shapes.- Theme 2 Architecture.- 2. The Architecture of Synthetic Worlds.- 2.1 Architecture.- 2.2 Science of Worlds and World Architecture.- 2.3 Assembling Synthetic Worlds and the Design Problem.- 2.4 Architectural Bases of Synthetic Worlds.- 2.5 Emotion Computation.- 3. Influence of Emerging Synthetic Worlds on System Architecture.- II Design and Implementation: Case Studies.- Theme 1 Artificial Life.- 4. The Meaning of Life — Real and/or Artificial.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 The Distinction between Living and Nonliving.- 4.3 Life “as it could be”.- 4.4 Morality: the Rights of Life.- 4.5 Conclusions and Future Directions.- 5. Artificial Life as Synthetic Biology.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Artificial Life and Synthetic Biology.- 5.3 Synthetic Biology and Emergence.- 5.4 Artificial Life as a Framework to Study Autonomy.- 5.5 Conclusion.- 6. Simulation of the Growth of Plants.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Botanical Concepts, Basis for Modeling.- 6.3 The Notion of Reference Axis.- 6.4 Evolution of the Growth Engine.- 6.5 Influence of Climate on Annual Growth.- 6.6 Simulation of the Tree/Environment Interactions.- 6.7 Technical Aspects.- 6.8 Conclusion.- 7. Synthetic Animals in Synthetic Worlds.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Preprogrammed Behaviors.- 7.3 Learned Behaviors.- 7.4 Evolved Behaviors.- 7.5 Behavioral Development.- 7.6 Discussion and Conclusion.- 8. Simulating Autonomous Life for Virtual Actors.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Creation of Virtual Humans.- 8.3 Simulation of Facial Expressions and Talk.- 8.4 Simulating 3D Clothes.- 8.5 Interaction with Virtual Humans.- 8.6 Communication between the Virtual Human and the Animator.- 8.7 Conclusion.- 9. Towards Autonomous Synthetic Actors.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 An Architecture for Animating Autonomous Synthetic Actors.- 9.3 Vision-based Navigation.- 9.4 Tennis Playing.- 9.5 Conclusion.- Theme 2 Synthetic Art.- 10. Sound Synthesis in Computer Music.- 10.1 Introduction.- 10.2 Sound Synthesis.- 10.3 Analysis/synthesis.- 10.4 Abstract Model.- 10.5 Creative Synthesis and Application to Computer Music System.- 10.6 Evaluation of Creative Synthesis.- 10.7 Future Direction of Sound Synthesis Study.- 10.8 Conclusion.- 11. Virtual Revisiting of Architectural Masterpieces and the Problem of Lighting Simulation.- 11.1 Introduction.- 11.2 General Objectives.- 11.3 Lighting Simulation.- 11.4 Storage and Reconstruction of Lighting Distribution.- 11.5 Texture Mapping.- 11.6 Walkthrough Animation.- 11.7 Parallel Processing.- 11.8 Results.- 11.9 Conclusion.- 12. Performance Facial Animation Cloning.- 12.1 Introduction.- 12.2 Background.- 12.3 Approach and Motivation.- 12.4 A Parametric Differential Interpolation Facial Animation.- 12.5 Human Face Cloning by Chromakey Analysis.- 12.6 Modelling the Neutral Face.- 12.7 Cannonical Models.- 12.8 Conclusion.- Theme 3 Synthetic Factories.- 13. Towards the Synthetic Factories: Requirements and Components.- 13.1 Introduction.- 13.2 Requirements for Synthetic Factories.- 13.3 ANIMENGINE: An Engineering Animation System.- 13.4 SYDEM: An Approach to Computer-Aided Assemblability Testing.- 13.4.1 Assemblability.- 13.4.2 Testing Assemblability.- 13.5 Process Visualization.- 13.5.1 Process Modeling.- 13.5.2 Process Scheduling.- 13.6 Discussions.- 14. Virtual Manufacturing.- 14.1 Introduction.- 14.2 Conventional Design’s Problems.- 14.3 Concurrent Engineering.- 14.4 Researches at the University of Aizu.- 14.5 Conclusions.- Theme 4 Synthetic Communication.- 15. Virtual Space Teleconferencing System.- 15.1 Introduction.- 15.2 Networked Virtual Environment Classification.- 15.3 Implementation Considerations.- 15.4 Virtual Space Teleconferencing System.- 15.5 Summary.- 16. Real Time Image Processing and Real Time Image Rendering for Televirtuality Application.- 16.1 Introduction.- 16.2 Analysis an Suntesis of “Clone”.- 16.3 Virtual Communities.- 16.4 The “Cluny” Televirtuality Experiment.- 16.5 Towards a General Real Time Analysis / Synthesis Televirtuality System.- Theme 5 Synthetic Perception.- 17. Towards a Complete Representation by Means of Computer.- 17.1 The Concept of “Complete Representation”.- 17.2 Acting with Feeling.- 17.3 Gestures and Sounds.- 17.4 Gestures and Images.- 17.5 Physically Based Models.- 17.6 Physically Based Icons.- 17.7 Conclusions.- 18. Virtual Space Decision Support System Using Kansei Engineering.- 18.1 Introduction.- 18.2 VSDSS (Virtual Space Decision Support System).- 18.3 Kansei Engineering.- 18.4 Application of VSDSS Using Kansei Engineering to the PS/US System.- 18.5 Conclusion.- 19. Quantity of Presence: Beyond Person, Number, and Pronouns.- 19.1 Introduction.- 19.2 Duality and Synthesis of Self/Other: Beyond Person.- 19.3 Shared and Split Perception: Beyond Number.- 19.3.1 Video.- 19.3.2 Audio.- 1.9.3.3 Shared Perspective: Sink Fusion.- 19.3.4 Split Perspective: Sink Fission.- 19.3.5 Non-atomic Sinks and Sources: Clusters.- 19.4 Grammatical Blur: Beyond Pronouns.- 19.5 Conclusion.- 20. The STV-Synthetic TV System.- 20.1 Introduction.- 20.2 Dynamic Coupling and Initializing.- 20.3 STV-Synthetic TV Procedure in a Nutshell.- 20.4 The System Decelopped by INA.- 20.5 Some Production Examples.- 20.6 Further Extensions.- 21. Teaching the English [r] sound to Japanese Through Sound and Image Understanding.- 21.1 Introduction.- 21.2 The English Semivowel: [r].- 21.2.1 Various instruction of the /r/ sound.- 21.2.2 Acoustic Features of the /r/ sound.- 21.3 A Model of the Ideal American [r] Sound in the Initial Position.- 21.3.1 Various [r] sounds.- 21.3.2 A model of the ideal [r] sound.- 21.4 The Development of the Ideal Pronunciation Training Tools.- 21.4.1 The Language Media Laboratory English Education System.- 21.4.2 Three dimensional (3-D) graphical displays of ideal interior facial movements in virtual reality.- 21.4.3 Superimposed 3-D images of the inaccurate portion of the speakers articulation organ movements.- 21.5 Conclusion.- Theme 6 Applications to Real Worlds.- 22. A Geological Model for Landscape Simulation.- 22.1 Introduction.- 22.2 Previous Work.- 22.3 Terrain Modelling.- 22.4 Simulation of Erosion and Deposition Processes.- 22.5 Rendering.- 22.6 Conclusion.- Key Word Index.