How to Make a Lamp Jump

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From: Duncan Elliott
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 22:46

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             Electrical Engineering Computer Group
                     Cider Seminar Series

  The Design of Controllers for Articulated Figure Animation,
                 or "How to Make a Lamp Jump"

                              by
                     Michiel van de Panne
             Electrical Engineering Computer Group
                     University of Toronto

     Time: Friday, April 28, 1989, 12:05 --- Place: GB 220

       If  a  lamp  could  jump,  how  would  it  jump?  Motion
  synthesis  for  such  articulated  figures  is  traditionally
  performed by talented  animators  making  use  of  keyframing
  techniques.   A  new  method of synthesizing realistic motion
  for articulated figures will be presented. The  method  makes
  use  of  controllers  generating  suitable torques to drive a
  dynamic simulation of the object. Dynamic programming is used
  to design the controllers.

       Hopefully I can persuade a hopping lamp to attend, along
  with YOU and your insightful commentary and/or suggestions.

                          Coming Soon

Date         Who                              Topic

May 2   Tet Yeap        A Neural Network for Temporal Pattern Recognition
May 5   Prof. Wortman   Adventures in Concurrent Compilation


-- 
  Duncan Elliott, Dept. EE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A5
  dunc@eecg.toronto.edu  dunc@eecg.utoronto.ca  uunet!utai!eecg!dunc
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