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Orchestra visualization includes kinematic modelling of orchestra
members and their instruments, automatic orchestra animation
generation, and animation playback control. The musicians
have also a limited ability to react to changes in their
environment while an animation is running. For example a
virtual DIVA musician can look around and blink while
playing an instrument. The DIVA system can automatically
generate instrument manipulation animations from
MIDI-encoded music. Musicians are represented with kinematic
human models that have about 70 degrees of freedom each. The
DIVA animation generator analyses a music score, and
with the help of an instrument property database, converts
the notes into a minimum-length list of end-effector goals.
For fast playback, the list of end-effector goals is then
preprocessed with inverse kinematics into a kinematic movie
that con- tains only forward kinematic parameters. These
actions of virtual musicians are animated and synchronized
with a synchronization signal generated by tempo tracking
module.
Researchers working with animation
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