Animats technology is covered by issued
United States Patents.
Click on any patent below
for details.
This patent covers "slip control" for simulated
characters. Without it, any legged character in a
realistic physical simulation will slip and fall on hills.
This patent covers most workable methods of spring/damper
(or "penalty method") simulations of jointed, colliding
bodies. Prior to our work, the spring/damper approach
had largely been abandoned as unsuccessful. We made it work,
and Falling Bodies was the result. The patent contains a detailed
description of how it's done. We are now licensing this technology
to game developers.
patents
and technology licensing
