<div dir="auto">The main idea, I think is to tie .bvh files to DanceWriting poses, then figure out some way to interpolate .bvh files for the final animation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If we can recognize faces, can we recognize body motions?  Any help with this would help me.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 5:42 PM John Carlson <<a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">yottzumm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><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)">It seems like my focus is drifting into Doug’s “crowds†in the form of dance troupes.  In particular, I am thinking of modeling the “Virginia Reel†and possibly other folk dancing (square dancing).<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For this, I will need some kind of notation. So far I have chosen DanceWriting.org, but I’m open to other suggestions. The idea would be for choreographers to model at a high level, like saying “pirouette†or clicking or an “animicon†without specifying low level details. I realize this can be done with X3D PROTOs.  I realize that this should be internationalized.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The model for this is MineCraft.  I should have an inventory of dance moves, and crafting tools to built more complex moves. And I should be able to move dancers on a stage and assign them dance moves at different times.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ultimately I’d like to do some kind of motion capture to create programmes (in many senses of the word).  Think of the human body as the architecture (in terms of instructions one might give).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If someone could point me at pre-existing BVH motion files, that would be super helpful.  I’m going to start searching.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The goal of all of this is to create a “movement crafting toolâ€, along the lines of SignWriting.org, that could be used to create programmes.  That is, use something like Kinect to input and edit programmes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">“We do not sense the world subjectively or objectively, rather it’s about what we do to the world, and what the world does to us.â€</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">John</div>
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