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From: Sha X. W. <xi...@mi...> - 2002-05-22 03:59:30
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For the record, This work by colleagues here in GVU may be interesting for some pattern deformations in sound+image. They recycled old calc of variations, etc. reminded my of Morse theory, Pontrjagin (http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/M55b.99/pontrjagin.html) may be a source of music beh i don't know, ask yon or joel anyway, turk & obrien's notion of influence shapes is quite suggestive. i'd like to think of thrid player as an influence shape on mappings between two other players.... in some sense. http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/people/faculty/greg.turk/morph/morph.html Shape Transformation Using Variational Implicit Functions Greg Turk and James F. O'Brien Georgia Institute of Technology (To appear in SIGGRAPH 99) Abstract Traditionally, shape transformation using implicit functions is performed in two distinct steps: 1) creating two implicit functions, and 2) interpolating between these two functions. We present a new shape transformation method that combines these two tasks into a single step. We create a transformation between two N-dimensional objects by casting this as a scattered data interpolation problem in N+1 dimensions. For the case of 2D shapes, we place all of our data constraints within two planes, one for each shape. These planes are placed parallel to one another in 3D. Zero-valued constraints specify the locations of shape boundaries and positive-valued constraints are placed along the normal direction in towards the center of the shape. We then invoke a variational interpolation technique (the 3D generalization of thin-plate interpolation), and this yields a single implicit function in 3D. Intermediate shapes are simply the zero-valued contours of 2D slices through this 3D function. Shape transformation between 3D shapes can be performed similarly by solving a 4D interpolation problem. To our knowledge, ours is the first shape transformation method to unify the tasks of implicit function creation and interpolation. The transformations produced by this method appear smooth and natural, even between objects of differing topologies. If desired, one or more additional shapes may be introduced that influence the intermediate shapes in a sequence. Our method can also reconstruct surfaces from multiple slices that are not restricted to being parallel to one another. Don't get me wrong, I'm less interested in purely visual stuff, more on integrated pattern transformations. Cheers, Xin Wei |