Readings / Read0406ConcatOn Monday, April 6th, we'll discuss concatenative synthesis (a.k.a. Motion Graphs). One important way to create long, controllable animations from shorter ones is by stringing them together. There is a fair amount of literature on this. I have written (or started to write) an annotated bibliography that you can look at here. I actually recommend looking it over, although its not a required reading. The required readings:
As usual, you are required to make a posting to the blog (here) At SIGGRAPH 2002, three papers came together that (arguably) marked the first real "motion graph" techniques in academia. While the core ideas had been kicking around, the idea of automatically assembling a graph and using this graph to synthesize motions that meet specific goals came together at this time. It is interesting that 3 groups came up with a very similar core idea at the same time independently. Some of this was that the area was ripe (with the fresh availability of data, etc.). While these three papers all had the same core ideas (opportunistically build a graph from a collection of motion data, search the graph to construct motions that meet goals), the details were very different. And the notations used in each were quite different. You are required to read the first one (that we wrote):
There are other papers that you might want to look at: |