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Character Animation: An Automated Gait Cycle for 3D Characters Using Mathematical Equations

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Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC 2016)

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With the increasing importance of 3D graphics, many types of animation have evolved to perfectly simulate motion. Referring to many movies, games, etc., almost all characters undergo gait cycles. The aim of this paper is to auto-generate realistic gait cycles; thus time and effort could be saved. This paper derives mathematical equations used in describing the gait cycle and tests these equations on several 3D characters to prove their validity using Maya program.

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  1. Digital Media Engineering and Technology, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Mary Guindy & Rimon Elias

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  1. University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA

    George Bebis

  2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA

    Richard Boyle

  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA

    Bahram Parvin

  4. Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA

    Darko Koracin

  5. The Australian National University, O’Malley, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

    Fatih Porikli

  6. Pilot AI Labs, Redwood City, California, USA

    Sandra Skaff

  7. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Alireza Entezari

  8. Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA

    Jianyuan Min

  9. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

    Daisuke Iwai

  10. The MOVES Institute, Monterey, California, USA

    Amela Sadagic

  11. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Carlos Scheidegger

  12. Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    Tobias Isenberg

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Guindy, M., Elias, R. (2016). Character Animation: An Automated Gait Cycle for 3D Characters Using Mathematical Equations. In: Bebis, G., et al. Advances in Visual Computing. ISVC 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10073. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50832-0_21

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