Physically-based animation of plant motions

Garcia, Alejandro

Physically-based animation of plant motions

dc.contributor.advisor	Prusinkiewicz, Przemysław
dc.contributor.author	Garcia, Alejandro
dc.contributor.committeemember	Runions, Adam Drew
dc.contributor.committeemember	Alim, Usman
dc.date	2023-11
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-26T21:44:49Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-26T21:44:49Z
dc.date.issued	2023-06
dc.description.abstract	The creation of realistic and lifelike plants has been a long-standing challenge in computer graphics. While signifcant progress has been made regarding the generation of plants using procedural methods, there is still a gap in understanding how to simulate their dynamics as effciently and realistically as possible. One of the major challenges in this area is the incorporation of complicated non-inertial effects into plant motion. Previous works tend to either focus on quasistatic simulations - which by defnition assume the absence of non-inertial effects - or ignore secondary motion in their dynamics calculations altogether. Either of these result in incomplete simulations that do not adequately capture the wide range of plant motion observed in nature. This is important because the human eye is keenly critical of inconsistencies in motion, meaning that incomplete models can easily appear off-putting and uncanny. To address these limitations, this thesis proposes a generalized and comprehensive physics model that aims to better capture the dynamics of procedurally-generated plants.
dc.identifier.citation	Garcia, A. (2023). Physically-based animation of plant motions (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116666
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41509
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Graduate Studies
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject.classification	Computer Science
dc.title	Physically-based animation of plant motions
dc.type	master thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Computer Science
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science (MSc)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.