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Virtual extras get own personalities

Giving each member of a digital crowd its own personality could make animated mob scenes more realistic.

Tito Estrada Staff writer, CNET News
Tito Estrada is a news producer at CNET News. He occasionally blogs on the quirky nature of the Net. E-mail Tito.
Tito Estrada

The behavior of computer-generated crowds in movies and video games could soon appear much more realistic, thanks to new software that gives each character a complex personality of its own.

Read the full report at Technology Review: "Virtual Extras"