In the animation process of a human-like 3D model, a skeleton must be specified to define the model’s surface deformation of its limbs. Nowadays the skeleton specification is hand made and very time consuming task. In this paper we propose a novel semi-automatic method for rigging a 3D model in an arbitrary pose using a skeleton defined in an animation datafile with no specific initial pose. Fi...

There are countless animation movies available nowadays throughout the Internet. Rich media (including Flash and PowerPoint) presentations are increasingly gaining widespread usage, particularly in the domains of elearning and digital entertainment. In order to allow these animation movies to be queried efficiently, in this article we present OXML an Object XML database for storing and retrievi...

the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of observing animated model, static images and combined model on motor learning of handstand balance skill. 45 subjects (mean age 8.03±1.7 yr) were randomly divided into three experimental groups: observation of animated model, static images, combined model. subjects trained handstand balance skill for three weeks (three sessions per week)....

Real-time animation of human-like characters has been an active research area in computer graphics. Nowadays, more and more applications need to render various realistic scenes with human motion in crowds for interactive virtual environments. Animation and level of detail are well explored fields but little has been done to generate level of detail automatically for dynamic articulated meshes. ...

Film-induced tourism, intended as travelling to places where films and TV series have been shot or set, has extensively studied in the last two decades several disciplinary fields. For example, term ‘media pilgrimage’ emerged media sociology highlight sacred dimension these practices may assume, while fan studies focused on narrative of affection built upon specific places. Calling forth relati...

In recent years the introduction of digital technology for TV and the launch of new generations of satellites has widened the number of channels available for the user. Besides, dynamism characterizes the current satellite broadcasting. Channels change weekly, and for the average user it is difficult to keep track of all the changes and update the settings of his/her receiver. In spite of this ...

Objective: To compare transabdominal (TA) and transvaginal (TV) ultrasound assessment of cervical length at 16-41 weeks gestation. Methods: TA and TV ultrasound measurements of cervical length were made on 491 pregnancies of 16-41 weeks gestation. Cervical length was measured from internal to external cervical os. Bland-Altman plots and Wilcoxon signed rank test were used to evaluate difference...

For the production of smooth animation of flow simulation out of only several data steps many interpolated intermediate data steps are needed. Especially for the meteorological visualization of moving clouds for TV broadcasting purposes such interpolations are of high importance. The traditional method for the animation production is to fade one dataset out and to fade the next dataset in. The ...