Fast realistic human body deformations for animation and VR applications

Author

Thalmann, Daniel ; Shen, Jianhua ; Chauvineau, Eric

Author_Institution

Comput. Graphics Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1996

fDate

24-28 Jun 1996

Firstpage

166

Lastpage

174

Abstract

Virtual Actors now play an important role in computer-generated films, Virtual Environments, Telecooperative work, and multimedia. In order to make these actors realistic, it is essential to represent their body shape during the motion. In this paper we present different methods for representing realistic deformations for virtual humans with various characteristics: sex, age, height, weight. Our methods based on a combination of metaballs and splines could be applied to frame-by-frame computer generated-films and Virtual Environments. Several examples are presented: autonomous actors, animation based on flock of birds, networked Virtual Environments

Keywords

computer animation; virtual reality; Telecooperative work; Virtual Environments; age; animation; autonomous actors; body shape; computer-generated films; fast realistic human body deformations; height; metaballs; multimedia; realistic deformations; sex; splines; virtual actors; virtual reality applications; weight; Animation; Biological system modeling; Humans; Joints; Muscles; Shape; Skeleton; Skin; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics International, 1996. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Pohang

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7518-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CGI.1996.511798

Filename

511798