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Publications


Example
Systems:

   Clothing

   Trampoline

   Basketball Net

   Water

   Ground

   Kites

   Floor Mat

   Bungee


Other
Projects:

   Animating
   Fracture

   Animating
   Explosions

     

Combining Active
and Passive Simulations
for Secondary Motion

[Example Scene]  

An abundance of motion in a complex environment can bring an animated scene to life. While some of the motion comes from the main character, a important contribution also comes from the passive motion of other objects in the scene. We use the term secondary motion to refer to these passive motions that are generated in response to environmental forces or the movements of characters and other objects. For example, the movement of clothing and hair will add visual complexity to an animated scene of a running figure. We are interested in exploring how secondary motion can be generated by coupling physically based simulations of passive systems to active simulations of the main characters.



[Basketball and Net Sequence]

Comparison of simulated basket ball and net with live footage.



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Questions or comments? Email jkh@cc.gatech.edu