TPaint animation?

[David Faught]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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
>

[Bert Freudenberg]

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 -