The animation of autonomous actors based on production rules

• Published in: Proceedings Computer Animation '96 pp. 47 - 57
• Main Authors: Noser, H., Thalmann, D.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1996
• Subjects: Animation; Application software; Biological system modeling; Computer graphics; Context modeling; Continuous production; Differential equations; Production systems; Stochastic systems; Virtual environment
• ISBN: 9780818675881; 0818675888
• ISSN: 1087-4844
• DOI: 10.1109/CA.1996.540487

We present a formal theory of a behavioral L-system and describe as application a real time structured L-system interpreter. The behavioral L-system is a timed, conditional, stochastic, parametric and environmentally sensitive L-system which allows besides the modeling of plant and fractal development the description and animation of autonomous actors completely defined by production rules. A virtual environment including geometric objects, force fields and sounds and the behaviors of actors can be defined using the same formalism of the behavioral L-systems.