When it comes to teaching science, animation seems like a natural fit. What better way to convey how a bicycle pump works or the functions of the human respiratory system? Yet research has turned up ...

An animated movie shows an ordered structure dissolving little by little into a disordered mess after a light pulse: Swedish researchers have used a computer to simulate ice melting after it is heated ...

Cornell researchers have developed a new and much quicker method for rendering hair in computer graphics that promises to make blond (and other light-colored) hair more realistic. Poets and novelists ...

A Purdue University research team has developed a computer simulation of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center with an aim to helping build stronger buildings in the future. Although ...

It’s a good year for BYU’s Center for Animation: in May BYU animation students won E3’s College Game Competition, and now BYU tops the Animation Career Review’s ranking of animation schools with ...

The path Kate Torres took to a bachelor’s in computer science was a bit surprising to some of her friends. At San Dimas High she focused on math and science. But when she enrolled at Cal State ...

Xencelabs Technologies and Full Sail University are joining forces to give computer animation and gaming students an education in the digital technologies used in today's professional creative ...

From creating smartphone apps to developing large-scale software that powers business and industry, computer scientists use their technical and creative skills to improve people’s lives in almost ...