<div><div dir="auto">It appears like there are many fonts for the deaf, <div><a href="https://aslfont.github.io/Symbol-Font-For-ASL/ways-to-write.html">https://aslfont.github.io/Symbol-Font-For-ASL/ways-to-write.html</a>.  Your SiGML has the feature of being written in UTF-8 (I guess).   Do you have a schema for SiGML?</div></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:14 AM Richard Kennaway <<a href="mailto:richard@kennaway.org.uk">richard@kennaway.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've done some work on animating sign language myself, going from the  <br>
HamNoSys notation  <br>
(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Notation_System" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Notation_System</a>) to a more  <br>
convenient XML-ised version called SiGML (Signing Gesture Markup  <br>
Language), and thence to animation data for any given avatar. The  <br>
animation data can be generated in a variety of formats, including  <br>
VRML, although I've never upgraded it to generate X3D. The most  <br>
complete description of the general approach I took is in the  <br>
unpublished (except for arXiv) "Avatar-independent scripting for  <br>
real-time gesture animation" <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02961" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02961</a>.<br>
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-- Richard Kennaway<br>
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Quoting John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com" target="_blank">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Movement_Writing_Alphabet" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Movement_Writing_Alphabet</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.movementwriting.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.movementwriting.org/</a><br>
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It appears that there is quite a bit of research behind translating  <br>
sign languages and other movement languages to a graphical form.<br>
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Interesting!<br>
<br>
John<br>
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