[Opensource] Fwd: Animata

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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)

>From a colleague in Tasmania, Ken Price. :-)

Clicking on the demo video will speak volumes that describes how this
software works.

Regards Roland


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Animata
    http://animata.kibu.hu/

"Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create
animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and
dance performances.

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.

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. "


-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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