"melo" <mel### [at] coxnet> wrote in message 
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> "Chris B" <nom### [at] nomailcom> wrote:
>
> Thanks Chris.
>
> Could you pls tell me what BVH files are?

It's just one of the formats used for storing motion capture data. It's 
actually a proprietary format but the format is human readable and 
published. See:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/graphics/Courses/cs-838-1999/Jeff/BVH.html

When I was doing this sort of thing there were quite a few free animation 
files in BVH format available for download, including dancing animations and 
kick boxing animations that folk had captured, so I wrote a little converter 
to convert BVH pose files into the format I used for POV-Person.

>
> Yes, "economics", the way I used in passsing was very ill-defined.  As a
> differently-abled adult, ex-engineer,  who is trying very hard to teach 
> herself
> character animation.  Who feels the progress had been painstaking
> slow.
>

Well, it's a pretty advanced topic with lots of interesting aspects and 
offshoots. It's possible to spend months just getting the animation of a 
single joint looking realistic once you get into muscle deformations. How 
long have you been working at it?

> You are right, even digital image capture & processing would require 
> investment
> in hardware and software.

.. and time. There are so many different approaches and techniques, none of 
which meet everyones requirements, so when you start digging into it it's 
easy to spend a lot of time on it and quite hard to work out what's likely 
to be a success.

> The information I discovered on various ways to
> accomplish this the state of technology was simply mind boggling.  Then I 
> found
> myself researching 6D rotation sensors.

Ah. Now you've caught me out. What the begeebees is a 6D rotation sensor?

Regards,
Chris B.

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