We address the problem of unsupervised learning of complex articulated object models from 3D range data. We describe an algorithm whose input is a set of meshes corresponding to different configurations of an articulated object. The algorithm automatically recovers a decomposition of the object into approximately rigid parts, the location of the parts in the different object instances, and the ...

This essay considers the uncannily persistent figure of the Mechanical Turk, a spectre that haunts medieval theology, early modern theatre and modern philosophy alike. In all three cases, it functions as the mechanical, inhuman antitype of a futurity figured as meaningful and human. These attributes are materialized also in the Renaissance ‘mammet’ or mechanical puppet, an object whose name bea...

Indonesia is a nation with various ethnicities and rich cultural backgrounds that span from Sabang to Merauke. One of the products Indonesian society shadow puppet. Shadow puppet has been internationally renowned as masterpiece art recognized by UNESCO. The development very dependent on technological sophistication it may shift existing traditional culture out memory nation. Practices modern li...

Children aged 3 years and 4½ years old watched a puppet, struggling to achieve goals, who was helped by a 2nd puppet and violently hindered by a 3rd. The children then distributed wooden biscuits between the helper and hinderer. In Experiment 1, when distributing a small odd number of biscuits, 4½-year-olds (N = 16) almost always gave more to the helper. Children verbally justified their unequa...

We present a method to automatically morph trajectories from one mechanical system into trajectories of another system with potentially very different dynamics. Our method relies on a mapping from the source system’s configuration space to that of the target system to create a desired trajectory for the target system. A projection operatorbased trajectory optimization finds a dynamically-admiss...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the quality of general movements (GMs) in infants proves to be a reliable and valid diagnostic tool for detecting brain dysfunction early in life. Of special interest, particularly for the prediction of cerebral palsy, is the fidgety kind of GMs, the so-called fidgety movements (FMs) observable in 3- to 5-month-old infants. GMs are part of an infant's spontaneous mo...

Sustainability with the materials used for purposes of art are a par- adox which artists face; does message brought forward by outweigh waste it produces? Central to this research is production stop motion puppet “fleshing” also known as exterior and create it. It nature animation craft physical char- acters, props, environments in order animate. Vastly different from its counterpart, CGI (Comp...