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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. What about the motion trackers used for animation? by Slashamatic · · Score: 5, Interesting
    One of the techniques used in computer assisted animation is to film an actor wearing a dark costume with strategically placed reflective dots. Cameras feed images through for processing which allow the animation process to be made more realistic (i.e, no cartoon physics). The raw output of the system is an articulated stick figure which goes to animate the 3d character.

    I guess as this is the movie industry, such stuff would not be cheap and probably require a beowolf cluster or two to run it.