OF THE DISSERTATION Biomechanical Modeling and Control of the Human Body for Computer Animation

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There are many areas of computer graphics which have been exhaustively researched in the context of static models, but for which the properties of animated models have been largely ignored. A good example of this is the area of level of detail (LOD). LOD techniques produce low-detail approximations to high-detail models, which may be used to speed up display of distant objects where the loss of...

The motivation for this article lies in 3D computer graphics animation systems that were developed twenty to thirty years ago. The author particularly sees the connection between Mathematica and the animation system that ran in Genera Lisp on the Symbolics platform. This article presents a method for programmatically operating on an animation scene graph in Mathematica represented in the X3D ex...

The creation of a stylistic animation through the use of high-level controls has always been a design goal for computer animation software. In this paper, we propose a procedural animation system, called rhythmic character animation playacting (RhyCAP), which allows a designer to interactively direct animated characters by adjusting rhythmic parameters such as tempo, exaggeration, and timing. T...

Computer-tailored (CT) digital health interventions have shown to be effective in obtaining behaviour change. Yet, user perceptions of these are often unsatisfactory. Traditional CT rely mostly on text-based feedback messages. A way presenting messages a more engaging manner may the use narrated animations instead text. The goal this study was assess effect manipulating mode delivery (animation...

This research defines the term “encapsulated model” or “emodel.” An encapsulated model is an animated object containing an integrated set of dynamic attributes — e.g., shape, motion, materials (surface properties), light sources, cameras, user interfaces, sound — represented by a procedural data format (i.e., a program written in a procedural animation language). A set of properties that charac...

This paper addresses the issue of allowing a user more control over the outcomes of interactive evolution for computer animation, a variation on genetic algorithms. By using a point-for-point representation for genotype, the control both in selection and variation process is possible while the genotype represented by procedural rules in previous works allows it only in the selection. We experim...