Motion Capture (Harris)

Background: In the field of animation and computer graphics, a new technique called motion capture has emerged as an exiciting way to animation computer generated models and characters.

Objective: The objective of this project is to animate a character using motion capture. The team will have the overall responsibility for the design, motion, and final three minute presentation. For the motion capture part of this three miniute presentation, your team will employ Pinch System from Fakespace. (See handout on Fakespace Pinch glove system.) The system includes a simple RS232 protocol which communicates gesture information and delta time stamps. The Pinch system includes a pair of gloves, interface electronics, user's guide, tracker mount and software. The RS232 interface allows the Pinch to be used with the SGI platform. The final three minute rendered animation should demonstate all the area of multimedia: animation, sound, video, text and graphics.

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