The virtual world is getting more realistic. New animation advancements in true-to-reality rumpling of clothes and face reddening are pushing us closer to the event horizon of the Uncanny Valley. The first advancement is an algorithm designed to give animated clothes life-like wrinkling and crumpling while you are besting that orc. While more realistically rendered clothing won't increase your manna, it may make digital effects in the next Matrix movie even better, New Scientist reports:
"This is exactly what people like me want," says Andy Lomas, a software developer who produced digital effects for the film The Matrix and is based at computer graphics firm The Foundry in London. "I want to be able to capture the fundamental nature of an actor's clothing, but also have the freedom to change the way he or she moves."
The algorithm was created from footage of people IRL. The researchers, lead by Carsten Stoll
