• DOI:10.1145/54852.378507
Corpus ID: 2887054

Spacetime constraints

@article{Witkin1988SpacetimeC,
  title={Spacetime constraints},
  author={A. Witkin and M. Kass},
  journal={Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques},
  year={1988}
}

A. Witkin, M. Kass

Published 1988

Computer Science

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Spacetime constraints are a new method for creating character animation. The animator specifies what the character has to do, for instance, "jump from here to there, clearing a hurdle in between;" how the motion should be performed, for instance "don't waste energy," or "come down hard enough to splatter whatever you land on;" the character's physical structure---the geometry, mass, connectivity, etc. of the parts; and the physical resources' available to the character to accomplish the motion… CONTINUE READING

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