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Computing the duration of motion transitions: an empirical approach

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Bobby BodenheimerAuthors Info & Claims

SCA '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

Pages 335 - 344

https://doi.org/10.1145/1028523.1028568

Published: 27 August 2004 Publication History

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This paper develops methods for determining a visually appealing length for a motion transition, i.e., a segue between two sequences of character animation. Motion transitions are an important component in generating compelling animation streams in virtual environments and computer games. For reasons of efficiency and speed, linear interpolation is often used as the transition method, where the motion is blended between specified start and end frames. The blend length of a transition using this technique is critical to the visual appearance of the motion. Two methods for determining an optimal blend length for such transitions are presented. These methods are suited to different types of motion. They are empirically evaluated through user studies. For the motions tested, we find (1) that visually pleasing transitions can be generated using our optimal blend lengths without further tuning of the blending parameters; and (2), that users prefer these methods over a generic fixed-length blend.

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Computing the duration of motion transitions: an empirical approach
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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SCA '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics symposium on Computer animation

August 2004

388 pages

ISBN:3905673142

Conference Chairs:
Norman Badler
University of Pennsylvania
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Mathieu Desbrun
University of Southern California
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Ronan Boulic,
Dinesh Pai

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