<div dir="auto">All,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Great to see the FACS menu and HAnimDisplacers demoed, and all the work everyone has done.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Apologies if my HAnimUtilityKit repository went away recently, I found out I was being charged by GitHub for some large files, so the whole repository got deleted.  I still have the entire history locally, I just need to find an appropriate source code control site for large files, if Aaron continues to produce them.  I think Michalis said he had an alternate site in Germany he was using (Codeberg?)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Apologies for missing so many HAnim meetings!   Seems like dozens now!   I plan on attending the X3D ecosystem meeting tomorrow.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you want the FACS combinations menu, that is also available, and perhaps adding some creaseAngles there would add to realism instead of blocky facial features.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Next steps likely beyond that for me are investigating exactly how MuJoCo represents soft bodies, like ponchos and hammocks, in their XML, and try to map that into something I create in X_ITE or perhaps Sunrize, if I am brave.  I don’t plan on addressing HAnim directly at this time, since that is more likely represented via skin weights.   Instead, I’m looking for a “dynamic CoordinateInterpolator” involving physical forces, or a “dynamic Displacer.”   I’m just musing here.  The point is to have points which aren’t predetermined in advance,  not necessarily pseudorandom particle systems, but something with interdynamics and intradynamics.   Obviously, these things can be pre-baked in advance,  the difference here is interactivity.  One should be able to choose to fall on a hammock at anytime it’s rocking back and forth, empty or full, even though you might fall on the ground because of a bad choice.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is why real-time animation is important, for the spontaneity that creates meaningful experiences.  I don’t really want to wax philosophical or scientific here,  it’s wrapped up in Jed Donnelley’s “I freely choose,” which he claims is based on previous experience.  But the whole universe is essentially looking at all the other corners of the universe, so it’s understandable why such things are computationally untractable.  But we might be able to capture a small portion that is meaningful.   That’s my goal, not to be the final step, but be the next step.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some of you may enjoy this clip from an old Christmas movie:  <div><a href="https://youtu.be/hImy_6B6H88?si=0LuCqfyaq3oHfgQj">https://youtu.be/hImy_6B6H88?si=0LuCqfyaq3oHfgQj</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Merry Christmas!</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM Don Brutzman via x3d-public <<a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div>I've posted on LinkedIn a summary and link to a blog entry on my website.</div><div><ul><li><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)">"Humanoid Animation</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span>#HAnim and #X3D Standards:<span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> Capabilities and Prospects" video and presentation are now available.</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:1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padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgb(10,102,194) 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(10,102,194)">Web3D Consortium</span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)">standards development work as part of</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaverse-standards-forum/" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;text-decoration:initial;text-decoration-color:rgb(10,102,194);font-weight:600;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-break:normal;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgb(10,102,194);color:rgb(10,102,194)" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgb(10,102,194) 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(10,102,194)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgb(10,102,194) 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(10,102,194)">Metaverse Standards Forum</span></span></a><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)">Characters and Avatars Town Hall on 19 November 2025. Additional presenters included representatives from</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualcomm/" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;text-decoration:initial;text-decoration-color:rgb(10,102,194);font-weight:600;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-break:normal;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgb(10,102,194);color:rgb(10,102,194)" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgb(10,102,194) 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(10,102,194)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgb(10,102,194) 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(10,102,194)">Qualcomm</span></span></a><span style="font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)">,</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;outline:rgba(0,0,0,0.9) 0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/meta/" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;text-decoration:initial;text-decoration-color:rgb(10,102,194);font-weight:600;border-style:none;border-width:0px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;word-break:normal;line-height:inherit;border-color:rgb(10,102,194);color:rgb(10,102,194)" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat rgba(0,0,0,0);outline:rgb(10,102,194) 0px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-color:rgb(10,102,194)"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-style:none;border-width:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:repeat 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</span></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/don-brutzman-741b40373_hanim-x3d-activity-7404323060503478272-Toti?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAFyJ_CEBAOg7-3edp_GWfKRTEEfTxMIU4w4" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/don-brutzman-741b40373_hanim-x3d-activity-7404323060503478272-Toti?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAFyJ_CEBAOg7-3edp_GWfKRTEEfTxMIU4w4</a></li></ul></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Metaverse Standards Forum Town Hall: Characters and Avatars</b></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Humanoid Animation (HAnim) and X3D Standards: Capabilities and Prospects</b></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Joe D. Williams and Don Brutzman, 9 NOV 2025</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Our contribution to this town hall shows 25 years of steadily advancing efforts by dedicated members of the Web3D Consortium Humanoid Animation (HAnim) Working Group. Current activity is bringing rigorous, validatable, and practically repeatable HAnim human models online using Web standards. Development of multiple open-source tools and converters are demonstrating author-defined model poses, interactive behavior interpolation, BVH-style motion animation, archival metadata, and even anatomical correctness. All HAnim example models are published online using the Web-viewable X3D Graphics standard.</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Special thanks to Aaron Bergstrom of North Dakota University for several of the nine interactive Web demos that are linked in the presentation briefing, playable in any Web browser.</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://relativemotion.info/metaverse-standards-forum-msf-town-hall-characters-and-avatars" target="_blank">https://relativemotion.info/metaverse-standards-forum-msf-town-hall-characters-and-avatars</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6aqhJbn7w&t=2701s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6aqhJbn7w&t=2701s</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px">transcript available, the round-table discussion at the en remains interesting too!</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6aqhJbn7w&t=5236s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK6aqhJbn7w&t=5236s</a></li></ul><div>Once again thanks to everyone contributing to the preparation of this brief, and the years of cooperative work everyone has contributed getting to this level of accomplishment.  Totally impressive.</div><div><br></div><div>Have fun with HAnim and X3D!  😀 👍</div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">all the best, Don</font></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">-- </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">X3D Graphics, Maritime Robotics, Distributed Simulation</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="monospace" style="font-family:monospace;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Relative Motion Consulting  <a href="https://RelativeMotion.info" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace">https://RelativeMotion.info</a></font></div></div></div></div></div>
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