I took a look at Herbert Stockers’ paper on Follower nodes today. The examples are quite good. The paper is first rate. You can find the paper at the www.bitmanagement.de site.
http://www.bitmanagement.de/documents/Stocker_06_Followers.pdf
For those of you who have yet to read this, Stocker provides a means to create filters that smooth motion of objects such as avatars by nodes that calculate movement in real time. Read the paper to see the math and implementation. With these nodes, for example, an avatar or other object starts and stops in a more natural manner thus simulating inertia. Paths are calcuated to…