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David Faught

May 27, 2009; 5:26pm

TPaint animation?

It occurred to me that it might be a relatively simple thing to extend
the inflation method used by Plopp and TPainter to use the Delaunay
triangulation as the basis for "bones" and skinning of the 3D figure
produced. Has anybody explored this?

Andreas.Raab

May 27, 2009; 6:19pm

Re: TPaint animation?

Yes, that is the logical next step. I don't think anyone has ever
thought about how to do that though.

Cheers,
- Andreas

David Faught wrote:
> It occurred to me that it might be a relatively simple thing to extend
> the inflation method used by Plopp and TPainter to use the Delaunay
> triangulation as the basis for "bones" and skinning of the 3D figure
> produced. Has anybody explored this?
>

Bert Freudenberg

May 27, 2009; 6:37pm

Re: TPaint animation?

Well, actually, there was a master's thesis project related to this at
the U of Magdeburg:

http://www.gaguls.de/danilo/downloads/PlayfulAnimation_low.pdf

- Bert -

On 27.05.2009, at 11:19, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Yes, that is the logical next step. I don't think anyone has ever
> thought about how to do that though.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
> David Faught wrote:
>> It occurred to me that it might be a relatively simple thing to
>> extend
>> the inflation method used by Plopp and TPainter to use the Delaunay
>> triangulation as the basis for "bones" and skinning of the 3D figure
>> produced. Has anybody explored this?

waufrepi III

May 27, 2009; 6:41pm

Re: TPaint animation?

In reply to this post by David Faught

Blender has a tool called the "Grease Pencil" which allows you to draw Armatures for a mesh. You might look at the source to get some ideas.

A link to the wiki for the tool:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:BR/Manual/3D_interaction/Sketching

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:26 PM, David Faught <[hidden email]> wrote:

It occurred to me that it might be a relatively simple thing to extend
the inflation method used by Plopp and TPainter to use the Delaunay
triangulation as the basis for "bones" and skinning of the 3D figure
produced. Has anybody explored this?

Joshua Gargus-2

May 27, 2009; 6:55pm

Re: TPaint animation?

In reply to this post by David Faught

Cool SIGGRAPH 2007 paper about exactly this:

http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/autorig/

Cheers,
Josh

David Faught wrote:
> It occurred to me that it might be a relatively simple thing to extend
> the inflation method used by Plopp and TPainter to use the Delaunay
> triangulation as the basis for "bones" and skinning of the 3D figure
> produced. Has anybody explored this?
>

David Faught

May 29, 2009; 12:05pm

Re: TPaint animation?

In reply to this post by Bert Freudenberg

This is a great reference. Thanks! Lots of good background information, and
well written despite the author's misgivings about writing in English.

Do you happen to know if any of the code for this project was made public?

Dave

KiranMutt

May 29, 2009; 1:57pm

Re: TPaint animation?

I think Code is already included in the web link...
http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/autorig/pinocchio.html

- Kiran

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Faught <[hidden email]> wrote:

This is a great reference. Thanks! Lots of good background information, and
well written despite the author's misgivings about writing in English.

Do you happen to know if any of the code for this project was made public?

Dave

--
Thanks & Regards
Kiran

David Faught

May 29, 2009; 4:08pm

Re: TPaint animation?

Thanks, but I was referring to the link that Bert sent, as in

>Well, actually, there was a master's thesis project related to this at the U of Magdeburg:
>
>http://www.gaguls.de/danilo/downloads/PlayfulAnimation_low.pdf
>
>- Bert -

I guess that replying by logging into the mailing list itself doesn't
give the option of including the note being replied to.

L{o_O}

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Kiran <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I think Code is already included in the web link...
> http://www.mit.edu/~ibaran/autorig/pinocchio.html
>
> - Kiran
>
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Faught <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> This is a great reference. Thanks! Lots of good background information,
>> and
>> well written despite the author's misgivings about writing in English.
>>
>> Do you happen to know if any of the code for this project was made public?
>>
>> Dave
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Kiran
>

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Bert Freudenberg

May 29, 2009; 5:00pm

Re: TPaint animation?

In reply to this post by David Faught

On 29.05.2009, at 05:05, David Faught wrote:

> This is a great reference. Thanks! Lots of good background
> information, and
> well written despite the author's misgivings about writing in English.
>
> Do you happen to know if any of the code for this project was made
> public?

I'm not sure. Danilo would know - cc'ed.

- Bert -