Towards a Methodology for Integrating Physics Engines with Virtual Environments: A Case Study Using the REVE Platform and the Vesper3D Physics Engine

Author

Anastassakis, George ; Panayiotopoulos, Themis ; Raptis, Gerasimos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

92

Abstract

Virtual environments are used today in a variety of application areas to produce virtual worlds that are highly dynamic, not only as a result of autonomous agent behaviour but, also, due to the effects of the application of physics laws. Motivated by the inherent complexity in both virtual environment systems and physics engines, we present our efforts so far towards a methodology for the systematic and uniform integration of physics engines with virtual environments by discussing the integration of the Vesper3D physics engine with the REVE platform for intelligent virtual environments.

Keywords

physics; virtual reality; REVE platform; Vesper3D physics engine; autonomous agent behaviour; intelligent virtual environment; physics engines; Arrays; Artificial intelligence; Engines; Physics; Software; Springs; Virtual environments; Integration; Physics engine; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics (PCI), 2012 16th Panhellenic Conference on

Conference_Location

Piraeus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2720-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCi.2012.63

Filename

6377372