Kiwi CGI Software Company To Build Robots
Kiwi Software firm Massive Software is getting into the virtual robot business. The key to Massive’s success is their 3D animation rendering software used in Lord of the Rings, Golden Compass and the Pirates of the Caribbean among many others.
The 3D rendering software allows filmmakers to realistically create virtual scenes using predefined or customer characteristics quickly and “easily”. For example in explosions, how the blast expands based on the environment such as buildings, trees etc.
Massive intends to take the software and apply it to real life simulations, for example being able to map traffic realistically. Remember those annoying holdups on the motorway, and by the time you get there it is gone. This concertina effect can be modeled using this software to predict truly realistic traffic flows and show ways to build or improve roading, without have to test and hope.
This form of artificial intelligence allows a far more accurate rendering of senarios in an large scale infrastructure progress, from aircraft building military battlefield simulations.
Massive contains some very sophisticated AI techniques including many multiples of independent units (Agents) acting in time and space.
Massive also employs fuzzy logic to make characters’ reactions more natural “than the on/off robotic results of binary logic,” the company’s Web site notes, as well as “rigid body dynamics,” which the site describes as “a physics-based approach to facilitating realistic stunt motion such as falling, animation of accessories, and projectiles.”
Massive claims it can run simulations using hundreds of thousands of simple agents. “Large numbers of more complex agents, such as typical humanoid agents, can be done in multiple passes, by simulating agents in groups of about 10,000 to 20,000, with each subsequent group able to see and react to the previously simulated groups,” its site states.
Massive was founded when Stephen Regelous programmed a unique piece of software for director Peter Jackson to make creation of complicated visual effects scenes involving hundreds of thousands of digital characters a practical reality. As an off shoot of the work on Lord of the Rings, it is now a standalone company.
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It is a good example that nowadays society is improving very quickly. Who 10 years ago could imagine that today we will have such an amazing pieces of technology as robots? Or 3d rendering software which can simulate our daily life? It is absolutely amazing. And huge thanks to Massive Software that they are doing all this stuff. I hope that in the nearest future such technologies will help us in our daily life.
Hey, I live in Wellington and have been following these guys for some time now. The company is extremely innovative and Im looking forward to seeing what they come up with next!
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This is really wonder to see the improving level of technology,i am just imagine that where the technology will stand after 10 years.
robotic technology starts in japan ,now most of the country in this world start making robot well.for the coming days this business will grow up all over the world..
need a free software that looks really good but free, and i can make like space ships and stuff for it for videos, plz help
I would love to see more high tech robots now a days. It is fun and futuristic like to see a robot on the road.
Robots will one day do most of our household chores to perfection. I wonder if humans will just do nothing except enjoy life without ever going to work because robots will take his place in the office and earn money for his boss! That would be great!
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