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Human Prototyping

Daniel Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
1989
Conference Papers

Abstract

Creation of new synthetic actors is a tedious and painful task. The situation may be improved by introducing tools for the creation. Three approaches are discussed in this paper: modification and edition of an existing synthetic actor using local transformations; generation of new synthetic actors obtained by interpolation between two existing actors; creation of a synthetic actor by composition of different parts. Animation of synthetic actors is also discussed.

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Daniel Thalmann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
1989
Conference Papers

Abstract

Official source

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/fcd27e00-b417-4c64-a2b7-df40f17e5899

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