Improving avatar collision detection performance for virtual environment applications

• Main Authors: Mohd. Suaib, Norhaida, Bade, Abdullah, Mohamad, Dzulkifli
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Elsevier BV 2009
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/15111/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Many virtual environment applications incorporate avatars as some of their inhabitants. Interactions between avatar and surrounding objects, as well as avatar and avatar, need to be done in real-time in order to retain the degree of realism and immersion of the virtual environment application. In this study, we consider an avatar as a human-like, 3D hierarchical representation. The aim is to improve the collision detection process involving a human-like avatar and its interaction. Previous work on avatar collision detection is presented. A proposed improvement is summarized from methods that have been implemented in other fields like ray-tracing and deformable objects simulation that can also be beneficial for this purpose.