A toolkit for automatically modeling and simulating 3D multi-articulation entity in distributed virtual environment

Abstract

This paper describes the Entity Modeling and Simulating Platform (EMS), a toolkit which can automatically model and simulate multi-articulation entities (actor or avatar) in a distributed virtual environment. EMS focuses particularly on modeling the physical and behavioral attributes of an entity and defining the relationship among different attributes. Using EMS, a user can interactively define the attributes of an entity, run and control the entity in a distributed virtual environment without programming. In this paper, the main modules and key technologies of EMS are introduced. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.