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Motion Capturing in Three Dimensions?

Posted by Cliff on from the teaching-a-wireframe-how-to-dance dept.

brokenbeaker asks: "I friend of mine is a modern dancer, and she is working with a 3D modelling program to record dance performances. Apparently, the system is very primitive - if you make a dancer jump, she doesn't fall back down to earth. My question is, does anyone know of a sophisticated (physics based, I guess) modelling program that can be used to record dance? How about motion capture in 3D - would this be feasible? Anyone looking for a programming challenge?"

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  1. Recording? by caca_phony · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The things you talk about seem to have more to do with composing dance than recording it...
    The formal composition of dance is a field that is hardly developed, most of dance is mixtures of repartorie learned one on one through generations with no formal theory or notation behind it. That means you're not gonna have very good luck finding any computerized tools for dance composition, AFAICT.

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