Further experience with controller-based automatic motion synthesis for articulated figures

摘要: We extend an earlier automatic motion-synthesis algorithm for physically realistic articulated figures in several ways. First, we summarize incremental improvements to the original that improve its efficiency significantly and provide user with some ability influence what motions are generated. These techniques can be used by animator achieve a desired movement style, or they guarantee variety synthesized over runs of algorithm. Second, report on new mechanisms support concatenation existing, automatically generated motion controllers produce complex, composite movement. Finally, describe initial work generalizing from 2D 3D figures. Taken together, these results illustrate promise challenges afforded controller-based approach synthesis computer animation.