Center for Innovative Computer Applications

This project represents a return to an old CICA project with a new twist. These animations of fish (a stickleback in this case) are shown to real fish of the same species in order to test their reaction to various stimuli. Instead of creating these animations "off-line" with Wavefront and playing back from tape, we are looking to generate the animation in real time on an SGI. This approach should not only provide greater flexibilty and control over the stimulus parameters, but may also allow the researchers to modify the behavior of the virtual fish in real time.

Categories:	Animation
Participants:	* Kim Bolyard, Biology * Bill Rowland, Biology * Eric Wernert, CICA
Dates:	January 1997 - ongoing
Resources:	* fish model courtesy of Brian Kaplan * Wavefront-to-Inventor translators * standard Open Inventor applications (SceneViewer) * custom Open Inventor code
See Also:	Brian Kaplan's earlier work

Productions

compiled video with samples of target behavior (1.5 Mb)

sample animation (double speed) (2.8 Mb)

Maintained by: ewernert@cica.indiana.edu
Last modified: 3/12/97