[X3D-Public] remote animation invocation (RAI)

[Joe D Williams]

> Can we think about sending something besides text across the 
> network?  Is there something wrong with sending motion/animation?

For 'real' x3d h-anim animation you are using combinations of joint 
rotations and translations which animate the deformable skin. I think 
usually this would be created using timers and interpolators, or just 
send sets of rotations and translations created somewhere else 
directly to the joint node. Many old-style avatars are animated by 
directly moving sets of vertices that represent parts of the skin or 
outer surface. You can get an idea of the joint animation approach by 
reading the interpolators in the Skeleton Running scene from:
http://www.hypermultimedia.com/x3d/JoeX3D/JoeX3D.htm
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Best Regards,
Joe

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Carlson" <john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Christoph Valentin" <christoph.valentin at gmx.at>; 
<x3d-public at web3d.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [X3D-Public] remote animation invocation (RAI)


> One nice thing about video is that you don't need to actually store 
> (and worry about DRM) a lot on the user equipment--just pixels. 
> Whereas with X3D (and other 3D technologies), you've got to store 
> (and attempt to protect) the DOM, the Scripts, the routes plus 
> whatever the browser needs in RAM to run.
>
> What I am attempting to make a value proposition out of is *selling* 
> (perhaps for free) and *distributing* motion that is generated by 
> end-users.  The goal would be to create a market out of creating 
> motion-generated programs derived from Kinect or similar 
> technologies.  We already can sell input from keyboards and mice 
> which generated programs.  What about creating programs using other 
> input devices?  If you want to call this "authoring" that's OK.  I 
> just call it programming.  Others might call it animation.  Maybe 
> dance is the best term.  I'm ready to separate myself from the 
> keyboard and mouse and get with a less sedentary job--doing 
> essentially exactly the same thing.
>
> John
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