From dance notation to human animation: The LabanDancer project

摘要: Symbolic systems such as Labanotation for notating dance and choreography provide a critical tool the preservation of cultural heritage in what once was considered an ‘illiterate’ art form. While goals notation are laudable, unfortunate reality is that most dancers choreographers cannot read or write notation; is, they loath to take considerable effort learn rich, but complex methodology. To make scores more accessible LabanDancer system has been developed translate recorded LabanWriter editor into 3-d human figure animations. A major challenge development this translator find approaches general enough create reasonable animations wide variety different movements. Any must also account context movement since can affect interpretation scores. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.