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Efficient and realistic character animation through analytical physics-based skin deformation
Bian, S. ; Deng, Z. ; Chaudhry, E. ; You, L. ; Yang, X. ; Guo, L. ; Ugail, Hassan ; Jin, X. ; Xiao, Z. ; Zhang, J.J.
Bian, S.
Deng, Z.
Chaudhry, E.
You, L.
Yang, X.
Guo, L.
Ugail, Hassan
Jin, X.
Xiao, Z.
Zhang, J.J.
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2019-07
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© 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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2019-06-03
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Physics-based skin deformation methods can greatly improve the realism of character animation, but require non-trivial training, intensive manual intervention, and heavy numerical calculations. Due to these limitations, it is generally time-consuming to implement them, and difficult to achieve a high runtime efficiency. In order to tackle the above limitations caused by numerical calculations of physics-based skin deformation, we propose a simple and efficient analytical approach for physics-based skin deformations. Specifically, we (1) employ Fourier series to convert 3D mesh models into continuous parametric representations through a conversion algorithm, which largely reduces data size and computing time but still keeps high realism, (2) introduce a partial differential equation (PDE)-based skin deformation model and successfully obtain the first analytical solution to physics-based skin deformations which overcomes the limitations of numerical calculations. Our approach is easy to use, highly efficient, and capable to create physically realistic skin deformations.
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Bian S, Deng Z, Chaudhry E et al (2019) Efficient and realistic character animation through analytical physics-based skin deformation. Graphical Models. 104: 101035.
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