Worldmodelling

Author : Mark Morris,Mike Aling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119747222

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Worldmodelling by Mark Morris,Mike Aling Pdf

In light of current developments in modelling, and with the aim of reinvigorating debates around the potentiality of the architectural model – its philosophies, technologies and futures – this issue of AD examines how the model has developed to become an immersive worldbuilding machine. Worldbuilding is the creation of imaginary worlds through forms of cultural production. Although this discourse began with an analysis of imaginary places constructed in works of literature, it has evolved to encompass worlds from fields such as cinema, games, design, landscape, urbanism and architecture. Worldbuilding differs from the notion of worldmaking, which deals with how speculative thinking can influence the construction of the phenomenal world. As architects postulate ever-increasingly complex world models from which to draw inspiration and inform their practice, questions of scale, representation and collaboration emerge. Discussed through a range of articles from acclaimed international contributors in the fields of both architecture and media studies, this issue explores how the architectural model is situated between concepts of worldbuilding and worldmaking – in the creative space of worldmodelling. Contributors: Kathy Battista, Thea Brejzek and Lawrence Wallen, Pascal Bronner and Thomas Hillier, Mark Cousins, James A Craig and Matt Ozga-Lawn, Kate Davies, Ryan Dillon, Christian Hubert, Chad Randl, Theodore Spyropoulos, and Mark JP Wolf. Featured architects: Phil Ayres, FleaFolly Architects, Minimaforms, and Stasus.

Author : Ian Millington
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351053297

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AI for Games, Third Edition by Ian Millington Pdf

AI is an integral part of every video game. This book helps professionals keep up with the constantly evolving technological advances in the fast growing game industry and equips students with up-to-date information they need to jumpstart their careers. This revised and updated Third Edition includes new techniques, algorithms, data structures and representations needed to create powerful AI in games. Key Features A comprehensive professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games Includes new exercises so readers can test their comprehension and understanding of the concepts and practices presented Revised and updated to cover new techniques and advances in AI Walks the reader through the entire game AI development process

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson,Daniel Whistler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030430160

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Interrogating Modernity by Agata Bielik-Robson,Daniel Whistler Pdf

Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology. That is, the twelve essays in this volume return to Blumenberg's work to think once more about how and why we should value the modern. Written by a group of leading international and interdisciplinary researchers, this series of responses to the question of the modern put Blumenberg into dialogue with other twentieth, and twenty-first century theorists, such as Arendt, Bloch, Derrida, Husserl, Jonas, Latour, Voegelin, Weber and many more. The result is a repositioning of his work at the heart of contemporary attempts to make sense of who we are and how we’ve got here.

Author : Ian Millington,John Funge
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781315360577

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Artificial Intelligence for Games by Ian Millington,John Funge Pdf

Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers, yet the commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI. In this book, Ian Millington brings extensive professional experience to the problem of improving the quality of AI in games. He describes numerous examples from real games and explores the underlying ideas through detailed case studies. He goes further to introduce many techniques little used by developers today. The book's associated web site contains a library of C++ source code and demonstration programs, and a complete commercial source code library of AI algorithms and techniques. "Artificial Intelligence for Games - 2nd edition" will be highly useful to academics teaching courses on game AI, in that it includes exercises with each chapter. It will also include new and expanded coverage of the following: AI-oriented gameplay; Behavior driven AI; Casual games (puzzle games). Key Features * The first comprehensive, professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games written by an engineer with extensive industry experience. * Walks through the entire development process from beginning to end. * Includes examples from over 100 real games, 10 in-depth case studies, and web site with sample code.

Author : John J. Drummond,Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786601483

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Emotional Experiences by John J. Drummond,Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl Pdf

Engaging with phenomenology, moral philosophy, politics and psychology, and authored by an international team of leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the ethical and social significance of a variety of human emotions.

Author : Reza Moheimani
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080442633

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Mechatronic Systems 2004 by Reza Moheimani Pdf

Author : Martin Göbel,Jaques David,Pavel Slavik,Jarke van Wijk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783709174883

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Virtual Environments and Scientific Visualization ’96 by Martin Göbel,Jaques David,Pavel Slavik,Jarke van Wijk Pdf

Selected papers from this year’s Workshops on Virtual Environments and on Visualization in Scientific Computing are included in this volume. The papers on VE discuss Virtual Environment System architecture, communication requirements, synthetic actors, crowd simulations and modeling aspects, application experience in surgery support, geographic information systems, and engineering and virtual housing systems. Contributions from the Visualization workshop are presented in four groups: volume rendering, user interfaces in scientific visualization, architecture of scientific visualization systems and flow visualization.

Author : Vipul Kashyap,Leon Shklar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Semantic Web
ISBN : 427490556X

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Real World Semantic Web Applications by Vipul Kashyap,Leon Shklar Pdf

Author : Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9784431682936

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State-of-the-art in Computer Animation by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann,Daniel Thalmann Pdf

Selected topics and papers from the first international workshop on computer animation, held in Geneva in 1989, provide a comprehensive overview of the problems encountered in the rising field of computer animation. To foster interactive links between researchers, end-users, and artists, roundtables and discussions have been included as well as presentations of concepts and research themes such as keyframe to task-level animation, artificial intelligence, natural language and simulation for human animation, choreography, anthropometry for animated human figures, facial animation and expressions, the use of dynamic simulation, motion control and blur, and data-base oriented animation design.

Author : Roger Bernard,S. Albright
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0412491400

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Robot Calibration by Roger Bernard,S. Albright Pdf

Calibration is playing an increasingly important role in industrial robotics. Higher accuracy demands are being placed on flexible assembly and manufacturing systems which in turn require robot manufacturers to produce higher quality precision robots.

Author : Bo Xing,Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319674803

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Smart Maintenance for Human–Robot Interaction by Bo Xing,Tshilidzi Marwala Pdf

This self-contained book, written by active researchers, presents up-to-date information on smart maintenance strategies for human–robot interaction (HRI) and the associated applications of novel search algorithms in a single volume, eliminating the need to consult scattered resources. Unlike other books, it addresses maintaining a smart HRI from three dimensions, namely, hardware, cyberware, and hybrid-asset management, covering problems encountered in each through a wide variety of representative examples and elaborated illustrations. Further, the diverse mathematical models and intelligent systems constructions make the book highly practical. It enables readers interested in maintenance, robotics, and intelligent systems but perplexed by myriads of interrelated issues to grasp basic methodologies. At the same time, the referenced literature can be used as a roadmap for conducting deeper researches.

Author : Jürgen Beyerer,Marco Huber
Publisher : KIT Scientific Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783866444690

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Proceedings of the 2009 Joint Workshop of Fraunhofer IOSB and Institute for Anthropomatics, Vision and Fusion Laboratory by Jürgen Beyerer,Marco Huber Pdf

The joint workshop of the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB, Karlsruhe, and the Vision and Fusion Laboratory (Institute for Anthropomatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)), is organized annually since 2005 with the aim to report on the latest research and development findings of the doctoral students of both institutions. This book provides a collection of 16 technical reports on the research results presented on the 2009 workshop.

Author : Christian Laugier,Roland Siegwart
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540754039

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Field and Service Robotics by Christian Laugier,Roland Siegwart Pdf

This books presents the results of the 6th edition of "Field and Service Robotics" FSR03, held in Chamonix, France, July 2007. The conference provided a forum for researchers, professionals and robot manufacturers to exchange up-to-date technical knowledge and experience. This book offers a collection of a broad range of topics including: Underwater Robots and Systems, Autonomous Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, and Climbing Robotics.

Author : Philipp A. Baer
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783899586459

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Platform-Independent Development of Robot Communication Software by Philipp A. Baer Pdf

Author : Lorenzo Natale,Tamim Asfour,Fumio Kanehiro,Nikolaus Vahrenkamp
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889455904

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Software Architectures for Humanoid Robotics by Lorenzo Natale,Tamim Asfour,Fumio Kanehiro,Nikolaus Vahrenkamp Pdf