De Vries & Mul, A.M. Cooper, Pioneer of Puppet Animation

-Puppet Animation by the Use of CyberGlove-

This paper presents an approach to realize a tool for interactive and intuitive deformation of 3D shapes, to be used, for example as a character animation tool. The approach combines a fast algorithm for 3D free form deformation that employs compactly supported radial basis function (CSRBF) with a high degrees-of-freedom input device of hand joint angles, namely, the CyberGlove. While shape def...

AVRATAR: A virtual environment for puppet animation

When it comes to three dimensional computer animations, the use of live actors to control the movements of onscreen characters produces a realism that is unsurpassed. But so are the costs, and that is why Avratar, a virtual environment for puppet animation, uses widely available products utilizing motion capture technology to control a real time puppet in a world limited only by the imagination...

Hugo De Vries

Modal De Vries Algebras

We introduce modal de Vries algebras and develop a duality between the category of modal de Vries algebras and the category of coalgebras for the Vietoris functor on compact Hausdorff spaces. This duality serves as a common generalization of de Vries duality between de Vries algebras and compact Hausdorff spaces, and the duality between modal algebras and modal spaces.

Motion Generation for Glove Puppet Show with Procedural Animation

Traditional Taiwanese glove puppet show is a unique form of performing art. In this work, we aim to use the aid of computer animation technologies to preserve this cultural heritage and create innovative ways of performance. By observing the demonstration of a puppet master, we analyze the characteristics of how a hand puppet is manipulated and design animation procedures mimicking the motion o...