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Toward an Integrated Motion-Synthesis Environment

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Computer Animation ’91

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The problem of creating a flexible, integrated motion-synthesis environment that orchestrates the coordination of diverse motion control systems is discussed. An implemented prototype system, called The Magic Theatre, is described which attempts to factor out interactive and procedural functions common to many motion control schemas. A theoretical model is given in which diverse motion control systems may both interact with each other and operate in series on animated elements in a scene.

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  1. Susan Amkraut
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  1. MIRALab, Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, University of Geveva, 12, rue du Lac, CH-1207, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

  2. Computer Graphics Lab., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Daniel Thalmann

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Amkraut, S., Girard, M. (1991). Toward an Integrated Motion-Synthesis Environment. In: Thalmann, N.M., Thalmann, D. (eds) Computer Animation ’91. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66890-9_10

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