Integrated learning for interactive synthetic characters
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
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This sketch outlines some of the background to a collaborative artwork created in September 2001 by Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser. This digital portrait of dance legend Merce Cunningham uses as a point of departure a motion-captured recording of 'Loops', his solo dance for hands and fingers; it uses new real-time non-photorealistic rendering techniques; and it exploits an advanced behavior architecture to structure the performance of the piece. In the resulting animation motion-captured joints become nodes in a network that sets them into fluctuating relationships with one another, at times suggesting the hands underlying them, but more often depicting complex cat's-cradle variations.