Title :
Artificial flying creature by flapping
Author :
Furukawa, Masashi ; Morinaga, Makoto ; Watanbe, Michiko ; Suzuki, Ikuo ; Yamamoto, Masahito
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
Abstract :
This paper proposes an artificial flying creature by flapping in a virtual air environment obeying physics law. For this purpose, a concise air drag computation method is introduced. The air drag plays the role of the environment force against the creature. The motion of the creature is automatically computed by use of the physics modeling software system and visualized as an animation movie. Results show that the creature with several pair of wings can fly by flapping as “a life as it could be”.
Keywords :
artificial life; computer animation; data visualisation; drag; air drag computation method; animation movie; artificial flying creature; artificial life; creature motion visualization; physics modeling software system; virtual air environment; wings; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Frequency locked loops; air drag; artificial life; flying; physics modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6586-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641817
