Difference: ArticulatedSwimming (10 vs. 11)

In previous, most scientific models for swimming motion are customized to specific species with predefined locomotion patterns. This paper describes a complete system for controlling a wide variety of aquatic animals in a simulated fluid environment.

How are the results evaluated:

Use particle traces to visualize the fluid flow, and use several types of body shape and styles for fishes to "swim" in the system. It also shows the comparison when doing different CMA iterations. The result shows that users can define a supposing track for animals to chase and it shows a good result.

Reproducability:

According to their clear simulation work and optimization functions, we can reproduce the system in a sort of clear way. Still some parameters are manually set and not mentioned in paper, however, it is not so hard to explore them out.

Improvement:

One question about the viscous fluid. If viscosity is a problem, why not make viscosity as a function of penalty for optimization. Everything else are good enough I think.

--Main.Jingxian Li - 02 Dec 2011