1. Human Motion Capture -- The Process of Motion Capture: Dealing with the Data -- A New Interface Paradigm for Motion Capture Based Animation Systems -- 2. Human Animation -- A Model of Human Crowd Behavior: Group Inter-Relationship and Collision Detection Analysis -- Dynamic Analysis of Human Walking -- 3. Physics-based Modeling -- Physically-based Wrinlde Simulation & Skin Rendering -- Interactive Display and Animation of B-spline Solids as Muscle Shape Primitives -- An Alternative Inter-Particle Force Model for Coupled System Flexible Body Dynamics -- 4. Natural Phenomena -- Qualitative Simulation of Convective Cloud Formation and Evolution -- Visual Model of Plant Development with Respect to Influence of Light -- A Phenomenological Model of Coastal Scenes Based on Physical Considerations -- Practical Experience in the Physical Animation and Destruction of Trees -- 5. Collision Processing -- REACT: REal-time Adaptive Collision Testing, An Interactive Vision Approach -- Collision and Self-Collision Handling in Cloth Model Dedicated to Design Garments -- Appendix: Colour Illustrations.