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Multimouth surfaces for synthetic actor animation

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Most parts of the human body are cylindrical in shape. Generalized cylinders, with two cross-sectional openings, are a logical choice to represent these cylindrical shapes. However, a variety of human body regions can be visualized as surfaces with multiple openings or multimouth (MM) surfaces. Some examples of such surfaces are the pelvis, the chest, and the palms of the hands. We investigated the suitability of non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) formulation for creating multimouth surfaces. Two techniques, the surface wrapping model and the garland model, are presented.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, 80933-7150, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

    Sudhanshu K. Semwal & J. Karl Armstrong

  2. CRL, Matsuchita Electric 3-5, Yagumo-Nakamachi, 570, Moriguchi-shi Osaka, Japan

    Douglas E. Dow & Fumio E. Maehara

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Semwal, S.K., Armstrong, J.K., Dow, D.E. et al. Multimouth surfaces for synthetic actor animation. The Visual Computer 10, 388–406 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01900664

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