Overview PDF Bios PDF Applications: Acrobat Reader Quicktime Audio: Advanced Real-Time Illumination Techniques / Nathaniel Hoffman Animation Blending: Achieving Inverse Kinematics and More / Jerry Edsall Animation System Implementation: What Works and What Doesn't / Jake Simpson Automated Testing of Massively Multiplayer Games: Lessons Learned from The Sims Online / Larry Mellon Beyond Bouncing Boxes: The Physics of Things That Bend and Break / Jeff Lander, James O'Brien Building AI Sensory Systems / Tom Leonard Building An Object System: Features, Tradeoffs, and Pitfalls / Alex Duran Custom STL Memory Allocators / Pete Isensee Designing a Portable Shader Library for Current and Future API's / Alex Vlachos Displacement Mapping / Michael Doggett, Tom Forsyth Enabling Data Driven Design Tuning via Existing Tools / Jeremy Chatelaine Fast Proximity Queries for Large Game Environments / Ming Lin Five Physics Simulators for a Human Body / Chris Hecker Frame Buffer Postprocessing Effects in DOUBLE-S.T.E.A.L (Wreckless) / Masaki Kawase Geometric Algebra: The Framework for Geometric Computations / Daniel Fontijne High Dynamic Range Imagery and Image-Based Lighting / Paul Debevec Highly Detailed Continuous Worlds: Streaming Game Resources From Slow Media / Stuart Denman Little to Big: What Changes? / Fred Brooks Living in a Procedural World: Growing a Virtual Forest / Patrick Smith Making Sound Designers Independent: Techniques to Integrate Audio into Games / Thomas Engel Memory Optimization / Christer Ericson Neverwinter Nights Client/Server Postmortem / Mark Brockington, Scott Greig Optimized Stenciled Shadow Volumes / Cass Everitt Pathematics: Routing for Autonomous Agents / Alex J. Champandard Physics and Animation, Blending Kinetics and Kinematics in a 3rd Person Shooter / David Wu Porting a PlayStation 2-Centric Game to the Xbox: A Case Study of State of Emergency / Jonny Dobson This page left intentionally blank. Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games / Jos Stam Representational AI Planning Techniques / Charles Martin Sandbox Strategy Learning in Sports Games / Jack van Ryswyck Scaling the Software Development Process: Lessons Learned From The Sims Online / Greg Kearney, Larry Mellon, Darrin West Simulation and Animation with Hardware-Accelerated Procedural Textures / Mark Harris, Greg James Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details / Robin Green Squeezing Every Last Drop Out of the PlayStation 2 / Matt Scott The Continuous World of Dungeon Siege / Scott Bilas The Technology of Jak & Daxter: Our Techniques for Realizing a Massively Detailed World / Stephen White