Planning techniques for agent based 3D animations.

The design of autonomous agents capable of performing a given goal in a 3D domain continues to be a challenge for computer animated story generation systems. We present a novel prototype which consists of a 3D engine and a planner for a simple virtual world. We incorporate the 2D planner into the 3D engine to provide 3D animations. Based on the plan, the 3D world is created and the objects are positioned. Then the plan is linearized into simpler actions for object animation and rendered via the 3D engine. We use JINNI3D as the engine and WARPLAN-C as the planner for the above-mentioned prototype. The user can interact with the system using a simple natural language interface. The interface consists of a shallow parser, which is capable of identifying a set of predefined basic commands. The command given by the user is considered as the goal for the planner. The resulting plan is created and rendered in 3D. The overall system is comparable to a character based interactive story generation system except that it is limited to the predefined 3D environment.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2005

Author dc:creator

• Kandaswamy, Balasubramanian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Tarau, Paul
• Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
• Figa, Elizabeth

• Computer animation.
• Three-dimensional display systems.
• planner
• JINNI 3D
• WARPLAN-C
• story generation systems
• interactive fiction

Statement dc:rights

• Public
• Copyright
• Kandaswamy, Balasubramanian
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 68934245
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4958/
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OAI identifier oai:identifier

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