This looks really cool! As some of you already know, I have fun teaching IT issues with hand puppets .. now imagine if I could wire up the students with this technology and turn their movements into an animation (ala Lord of the Rings)<br>
<br>From a colleague in Tasmania, Ken Price. :-)<br><br>Clicking on the demo video will speak volumes that describes how this software works.<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
Animata<br>
<a href="http://animata.kibu.hu/" target="_blank">http://animata.kibu.hu/</a><br>
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"Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.<br>
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The peculiarity of the software is that the animation - the movement of the puppets, the changes of the background - is generated in real-time, making continuous interaction possible. This ability also permits that physical sensors, cameras or other environmental variables can be attached to the animation of characters, creating a cartoon reacting to its environment. For example, it is quite simple to create a virtual puppet band reacting to live audio input, or set up a scene of drawn characters controlled by the movement of dancers.<br>
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In contrast with the traditional 3D animation programs, creating characters in Animata is quite simple and takes only a few minutes. On the basis of the still images, which serve as the skeleton of the puppets, we produce a network of triangles, some parts of which we link with the bone structure. The movement of the bones is based on a physical model, which allows the characters to be easily moved. "<br>
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</div><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<br>