ICEC 2020
Body2Particles: Designing Particle Systems Using Body Gestures
H. Xie, D. Xie and K. Miyata
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Abstract
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Body2Particles is an interactive design system that allows
users to create complex particle systems using body gestures. Even for
skilled animators, adjusting the various parameters for the animation of
complex physics systems is a boring task. Common users may feel frustrated in attempting to understand these parameters and their proper
usages. To solve these issues, Body2Particles provides an embodied design interface for the animation of complex particle systems. This work
focuses especially on the animation of fireworks as it requires the hierarchical construction of multiple particle systems. The proposed user
interface takes the user's body movements as input from depth sensor
and outputs fireworks animation. In our preliminary study, we identified
the relationships among the animation parameters and skeleton joints.
The system proposed in this study adapts these relationships using predefined parameter constraints and estimates the simulation parameters
based on the captured skeleton from a depth sensor.
Framework
Video
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Acknowledgements
We greatly thank reviewers for their valuable comments, and all the participants in our user study. This work was supported by Hayao Nakayama Foundation Research Grant A, and JSPS KAKENHI grant JP20K19845, Japan.Related Projects
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