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Programming Animation Using Behavioral Programming

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Behavior Modeling -- Foundations and Applications

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We propose a simple, user-friendly way of creating computer programs for hybrid systems whose execution involves animation. This is done by adapting behavioral programming, a recently proposed approach to software development that is aligned with how people describe system behavior, for use in programming animation. Users can define discrete and continuous behavior, which are then run simultaneously, interacting with each other, and resulting in a smooth hybrid animation.

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Part of this research was supported by the I- CORE program of the Israel Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    David Harel & Shani Nitzan

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  1. Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands

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  2. Metamaxim, London, United Kingdom

    Ashley McNeile

  3. Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Ekkart Kindler

  4. Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany

    Christian Gerth

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Harel, D., Nitzan, S. (2015). Programming Animation Using Behavioral Programming. In: Roubtsova, E., McNeile, A., Kindler, E., Gerth, C. (eds) Behavior Modeling -- Foundations and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6368. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21912-7_5

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