The virtual lover： variable and easily guided 3D fish animations as an innovative tool inmate-choice experiments with sailfin mollies-I,Design and implementation  

作　　者：Klaus MuLLER Jevgen SMIELIK Jan-Marco HOTWOHL Stefanie GIERSZEWSKI Klaudia WITTE Klaus-Dieter KUHNERT 

机构地区：[1]Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Institute of Real-Time Learning Systems, University of Siegen, HSIderlinstraBe 3, Siegen, 57076, Germany [2]Research Group of Ecology and Behavioral Biology,Institute of Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein-Stral~e 2, Siegen, 57068, Germany

出　　处：《Current Zoology》2017年第1期55-64,共10页动物学报（英文版）

摘　　要：Animal behavior researchers often face problems regarding standardization and reproducibility oftheir experiments. This has led to the partial substitution of live animals with artificial virtual stim-uli. In addition to standardization and reproducibility, virtual stimuli open new options for re-searchers since they are easily changeable in morphology and appearance, and their behavior canbe defined. In this article, a novel toolchain to conduct behavior experiments with fish is presentedby a case study in sailfin mollies Poecilia latipinna. As the toolchain holds many different and novelfeatures, it offers new possibilities for studies in behavioral animal research and promotes thestandardization of experiments. The presented method includes options to design, animate, andpresent virtual stimuli to live fish. The designing tool offers an easy and user-friendly way to definesize, coloration, and morphology of stimuli and moreover it is able to configure virtual stimuli ran-domly without any user influence. Furthermore, the toolchain brings a novel method to animatestimuli in a semiautomatic way with the help of a game controller. These created swimming pathscan be applied to different stimuli in real time. A presentation tool combines models and swim-ming paths regarding formerly defined playlists, and presents the stimuli onto 2 screens.Experiments with live sailfin mollies validated the usage of the created virtual 3D fish models inmate-choice experiments.

关 键 词：computer animation  FISH behavior  mate-choice experiment  research tool  VIRTUAL FISH model. 

分 类 号：Q[生物学]