References

Articles

• Agre, P and D. Chapman, Pengi: An implementation of A Theory of Situated Action, Proceedings of AAAI-87, 1987.
• Bates, Joseph, Virtual Reality, Art, and Entertainment, in Presence: The Journal of Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, MIT Press, 1991.
• Blumberg, Bruce. Action-Selection in Hamsterdam: Lessons from Ethology, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. Edited by: S. Wilson, J.M. Arcady, P. Husbands, D. Cliff, MIT Press, 1994.
• Blumberg, Bruce. and Tinsley Galyean, Multi-Level Direction of Autonomous Creatures for Real-Time Virtual Environments, in: Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 95, to appear.
• Brooks, R.A. A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, 2,1, 1986.
• Brooks, R.A. The Whole Iguana, Robotics Science, MIT Press, 1989.
• Cook, Robert L., Shade Trees, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH `84 Proceedings), volume 18, pages 223-231, July 1984.
• Dutt, Gordy, editor: Kit Builder's Magazine published quarterly; #13 was Winter 1994.
• Girard, M. and A.A. Maciejewski, Computational Modeling for the Computer Animation of Legged Figures, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH `85 Proceedings), Volume 19, July 1985.
• Kahn, K, and Carl Hewitt, Dynamic Graphics using Quasi Parallelism, MIT AI Lab memo, May 14, 1878.
• Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. This excellent quote was gotten second hand from page 1 of Abelson85, to whom we are indebted.
• McKenna, M. S. Pieper, and D. Zeltzer, Control of a Virtual Actor: The Roach, Proceedings of 1990 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, March 1990.
• Maes, P. How to Do the Right Thing, Connection Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1989.
• Maes, P. and R.A. Brooks, Learning to Coordinate Behaviors, Proceedings of AAAI-90, 1990.
• Miller, Gavin, The Motion Dynamics of Snakes and Worms, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings `88), August 1988.
• Rasmussen, J. Skills, Rules and Knowledge; Signals, Signs and Symbols and other Distinctions in Human Performance Models, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. SMC-13, no. 3 (May/June 1983).
• Reeves, William T., Eben F. Ostby, Samuel J. Leffler, The Menv Modelling and Animation Environment, The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol 1:33-40 (1990).
• Reynolds, C. Computer Animation with Scripts and Actors, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings), 1982.
• Reynolds, C.W. Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings `87), Volume 21, July 1987.
• Sims, Karl, Evolving Virtual Creatures, SIGGRAPH Proceedings, 1994.
• Sims, Karl, Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH `91 Proceedings), volume 25, pages 319-328, 1991.
• Wilson, S, Classifier Systems and the Animat Problem, Machine Learning, 1987.
• Xiaoyuan, T, and D. Terzopoulos, Artificial Fishes: Physics, Locomotion, Perception, Behavior, Computer Graphics, (SIGGRAPH `94), July 1994.
• Zeltzer, D. Towards an Integrated View of 3-D Computer Animation, The Visual Computer, 1(4), December 1985, 249-259. (Reprinted with revisions from Proc. Graphics Interface 85, Montreal, May 27-31, 1985.)
• Zeltzer, D. Motor Problem Solving for Three Dimensional Computer Animation, Proceedings of Proc. L'Imaginaire Numerique, (May 14-16 1987).
• Zeltzer, D. Motor Problem Solving for Three Dimensional Computer Animation, Proceedings of Proc. L'Imaginaire Numerique, (May 14-16 1987).
• Zeltzer, D. and M.B. Johnson, Motor Planning: Specifying and Controlling the Behavior of Autonomous Animated Agents. Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, April-June 1991, 2(2), pp. 74-80.

Books

• Abelson, H, and G.J. Sussman with J. Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, MIT Press.
• Adamson, Joe Tex Avery: King of Cartoons, DaCapo Press, New York, 1975
• Agha, G. Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems, MIT Press, 1985.
• Badler, Norman I., Cary B. Phillips, and Bonnie Lynn Webber, Simulating Humans: Computer Graphics Animation and Control. 1993, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Bruegman, B. The Aurora History and Price Guide, Cap'n Penny Productions, Inc., Akron Ohio, 1994.
• Byrne, J and D. Giordano, The Remaking of a Legend:Superman, the Man of Steel®, DC Comics, Inc, 1987.
• Carriero, N, and D. Gelernter, How to Write Parallel Programs, MIT Press, 1990.
• Charniak, E. & McDermott, D. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1985.
• Culhane, S., Animation: Script to Screen, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1988.
• Dutt, Gordy, A Collection of Classic Instruction Sheets, Vol. 1:Figures, published by Gordy's in Sharon Center, Ohio, 1992.
• Ebert, David S. (ed.), F. Kenton Musgrave, Darwyn Peachey, Ken Perlin, and Steven Worley, Texturing and Modeling: A Procedural Approach, Academic Press, 1994.
• Gallistel, C.R., The Organization of Action, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Hillsdale, NJ, 1980.
• Goldberg, D.E., Genetic Algorithms, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
• Gelernter, D, and Suresh Jagannathan, Programming Linguistics,MIT Press, 1990.
• Groening, M, Cartooning with the Simpsons, HarperPerennial, New York, 1993.
• Hart, C., Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cartooning but were Afraid to Ask, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1994.
• Jones, Chuck Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, Harper & Collins, Toronto, 1989.
• Jenkins, Henry Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture, Routledge, New York and London, 1992.
• Laybourne, K., The Animation Book, Crown Trade Paperbacks, New York, 1979.
• Laurel, B., Computers as Theatre, Addison Wesley, New York, 1991.
• McCloud, Scott, Understanding Comics, Tundra Press, 1993, Northhampton, MA.
• Miller F, with K. Janson and L. Varney, , F Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, DC Comics, Inc, 1986.
• Minsky, M. The Society of Mind, Simon and Schuster, N.Y, N.Y. 1987.
• Moliere, The Misanthrope and other Plays, translated by Donald M. Frame, New American Library, New York, 1968.
• Ousterhout, J.K. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit, Addison Wesley Publishing Company, New York, 1994.
• Seeger, L. Creating Unforgettable Characters, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1990.
• Solomon, Charles, The History of Animation: Enchanted Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1989.
• Stanislavski, Constantin, translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, An Actor Prepares, Routledge, New York, 1989.
• Stanislavski, Constantin, translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, Building a Character, Routledge, New York, 1989.
• Stanislavski, Constantin, translated by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, Creating a Role, Routledge, New York, 1989.
• Tinbergen, N, The Study of Instinct, Oxford University Press, London, 1951.
• Thomas, F & Ollie Johnston, Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, Abbeville Press, New York 1981.
• Thomas, F & Ollie Johnston, Too Funny For Words: Disney's Greatest Sight Gags, Abbeville Press, New York 1987.
• White, T., The Animation Workbook, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1988.
• Upstill, S. The RenderMan Companion, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1989.
• Webb, Terry J., Revenge of the Garage Kit That Ate my Wallet, Webbhead Enterprises, 1994.

Book Chapters

• Badler, N.I. and B.L. Webber, Animation from Instructions. in Making them Move: Mechanics, Control, and Animation of Articulated Figures, Morgan-Kaufmann 1991.
• Baker, M. Pauline, An Object-Oriented Approach to Animation Control. in Computer Graphics Using Object-Oriented Programming, Wiley 1991.
• Malone, T.W. et.al, Enterprise: A Market-Like Task Scheduler for Distributed Computing Environments, in The Ecology of Computation, ed. B.A. Huberman, Elsevier Science Publishing, 1988.
• Zeltzer, D. and M.B. Johnson, Virtual Actors and Virtual Environments: Defining, Modeling and Reasoning about Motor Skills, in Interacting with Virtual Environments, L. MacDonald and J. Vince, 1993, John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, England.

Personal Communications/Talks

• John Lasseter , spring, 1994, a talk given at the AAAI Spring Symposium on "Believable Characters".
• Yael Miló , late summer, 1993.
• Eben Ostby , spring, 1994.
• Annabella Serra, summer, 1993.
• Zeltzer, David, fall 1988 and on.

Tech Reports

• Beer, R.D., L.S. Sterling, and H.J. Chiel, Periplaneta Computatrix: The Artificial Insect Project, Tech Report TR-89-102, Case Western Reserve University, 1989.
• Pixar, The RenderMan Interface, Version 3.1, September 1989.
• Bers, J. Geometric Body Modelling for Full-Body Human Computer Interaction, MIT Media Lab AHIG Tech report 95-1, March 1995.

Theses

• Galyean, T Navigating Narrative Spaces (not the exact title...), Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1995.
• Johnson, M.B. Build-a-Dude: Action Selection Networks for Computational Autonomous Agents, SMVS Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Feb. 1991.
• McKenna, M. A Dynamic Model of Locomotion for Computer Animation, SM Thesis, MIT Media Lab, January 1990.
• Maes, Pattie. Computational Reflection, Ph.D. thesis, Technical Report 87.2, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Brussels, 1987.
• Sims, K. Locomotion of Jointed Figures over Complex Terrain, SMVS Thesis, MIT Media Lab, 1987.
• Strassmann, S. Desktop Theater: A System for Automatic Animation Generation, Ph.D. Thesis, MIT Media Lab, 1991.
• Travers, M.D. Agar: An Animal Construction Kit, SM Thesis, MIT Media Lab, 1989.
• Zeltzer, D. Representation and Control of Three Dimensional Computer Animated Figures, Ph.D. Thesis, Ohio State University (August 1984).

Videos/Films

• Luxo Jr., Pixar
• Red's Dream, Pixar
• Tin-Toy, Pixar
• Knick-Knack, Pixar