HAL: a multimedia language for the creation of 3D animations of human figures

Author

Meziat, D. ; López, J. ; Rodríguez, I. ; Carbajo, M. ; Casillas, A. ; Bosque, J.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Alcala Univ., Spain

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Sep 1997

Firstpage

181

Lastpage

182

Abstract

The design and development of a visual computer system for the modelling and simulation of human movements are described. A multimedia language named HAL (Human Animation Language) allows human figure movements to be generated in a graphical and intuitive way, accomplishing human-computer interaction through a 3D icon-graphic interface. In the language implementation, the object-oriented programming methodology is used. In order to validate the proposed language, a specific development environment, named “choreographic creation”, has been designed. A PC system has been considered in order to provide better user accessibility

Keywords

art; biomechanics; computer animation; digital simulation; microcomputer applications; multimedia computing; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; programming environments; solid modelling; visual languages; 3D animation; 3D icon-graphic interface; HAL; Human Animation Language; PC system; choreographic creation; development environment; human figure movement simulation; human-computer interaction; multimedia language; object-oriented programming methodology; user accessibility; visual computer system; Animation; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Graphics; Humans; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Programming environments; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1997. Proceedings. 1997 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Isle of Capri

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8144-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1997.626580

Filename

626580