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http://vimeo.com/79098420
This looks amazing, what would I need to study to get into this? What is this even called? It's some mix of evolution, AI, and simulation.

>> No.6839907

>>6839901
/r/ing webM of guy walking from 3:09 until he gets BTFO at 3:24

>> No.6839980

bump

>> No.6840115

machine learning
loads of algorithms

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>>6839907

Anon delivers

>> No.6840202

more bump

>> No.6840359

bump x3

>> No.6840667

>>6839901
computer science

>> No.6840670

I'll take a wild guess and say there's no single field devoted to this, but I assume a company developing this kind of technology will want mostly people in CS, math, and physics.
I'd take a look at SIGGRAPH, that's where all the top shelf animation technology developers are.

>> No.6840672

Since the thread is back up again I want to ask something. What software do they use for the animations? What's the typical workflow?
They mention blender but not the specifics.

>> No.6840680

>>6840672
Blender, 3ds max, Maya, XSI, Houdini are the industry standards. Blender is an open source alternative but not as good as the others. The typical workflow depends on the objective, for movies or grames for example it's a mix between frame-by-frame animation, automated animation through scripts like in OP's video (which create "muscle"/joint connections and simulate physics interactions), and MOCAP. Any of these programs I mentioned are scalable, that means you can develop your own scripts / plugins to automate something. Bear in mind though that each of them have their own programming languages so they are not interchangeable.
if your interested you can start by doing something simple, say programming a bouncing ball, or maybe just a linear animation if you can't do that at first.

>> No.6840700

What's the name of that game where you have a vehicle that evolves to be more stable/ drive farther?

>> No.6840746

>>6840700
BoxCar2D
>http://boxcar2d.com/
Evolution applied to simulation like this is my fetish