Animated free-form deformation: an interactive animation technique

  • Authors:
  • Sabine Coquillart;Pierre Jancéne

  • Affiliations:
  • Sabbatical at Thomson Digital Images, Paris and INRIA, 78153 Le Chesnay, France;INRIA, 78153 Le Chesnay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 18th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Current research efforts focus on providing interactive techniques that make 3D concepts easy to use and accessible to large numbers of people. In this paper, a new interactive technique for animating deformable objects is presented. The technique allows easy specification and control of a class of deformations that cannot be produced by existing techniques without considerable human intervention.The methodology proposed relies on the Free-Form Deformation (FFD) technique. It makes use of a deformation tool that is animated like any other object.This approach provides a representation of the deformations independent of the surface geometry, and can be easily integrated into traditional hierarchical animation systems.