Synthesis and evaluation of linear motion transitions

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wang, Jing ^a   Bodenheimer, Bobby ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Linear blending; Motion transitions; Perception

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; LINEAR BLENDING; MOTION TRANSITIONS;

ANIMATION; COST FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 41449115162     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1330511.1330512     Document Type: Article

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