2017/08/28 by Zherong Pan, Dinesh Manocha, Pan, Zherong +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Graphics (cs.GR) #Human Motion and Animation #Human Pose and Action Recognition #Music Technology and Sound Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.08188
openalex publication_date 2017/08/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present an efficient spacetime optimization method to automatically generate animations for a general volumetric, elastically deformable body. Our approach can model the interactions between the body and the environment and automatically generate active animations. We model the frictional contact forces using contact invariant optimization and the fluid drag forces using a simplified model. To handle complex objects, we use a reduced deformable model and present a novel hybrid optimizer to search for the local minima efficiently. This allows us to use long-horizon motion planning to automatically generate animations such as walking, jumping, swimming, and rolling. We evaluate the approach on different shapes and animations, including deformable body navigation and combining with an open-loop controller for realtime forward simulation.