Animation space: A truly linear framework for character animation

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1400-1423

  Merry, Bruce ^a   Marais, Patrick ^a   Gain, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Character animation; Parametrization; Skinning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHARACTER ANIMATION; PARAMETRIZATION; SKINNING;

ANIMATION;

EID: 33845503912     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1183287.1183294     Document Type: Article

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