Chapter 7 - Structure & Hierarchical Modeling
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Structure & Hierarchical Modeling
Dr. Umair Ali Khan
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Structure and Hierarchal Modeling
• Introduction
• Structure
• Modeling
• Hierarchal Modeling
• Hierarchal Modeling with structure
• Examples
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Introduction
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Structure
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Modeling
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Hierarchal Modeling
Triangle mesh, splines, etc..
Transformations, hierarchies
Time dependent transformations
pipelining
Raster operations
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Hierarchal Modeling with structure
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Example1: Modeling with Transformations
Making a stick person out of
cubes
Just translate, rotate, and scale
each one to get the right size,
shape, position, and orientation
Looks great –until you try to
make it move
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Example1 :The Right Control Knobs
As soon as you want to change something, the
model falls apart
Reason: the thing you’re modeling is
constrained but your model doesn’t know it
What we need: Some sort of
representation of structure
A set of “control
knobs”(parameters) that make it
easy to move our stick person
through legal configurations
This kind of control is convenient for static
models, and vital for animation!
Key is to structure the transformations in the
right way: using a hierarchy 9
Example1: A Schematic Humanoid
Each node represents Rotation(s)
Geometric primitive(s)
Struct. Transformations
The root can be anywhere. We chose
the back
Control knob for each joint angle,
plus global position and orientation
A realistic human would be much
more complex
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Example1: Humanoid Figure
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Example1: Humanoid Figure2
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Example1: Skeleton
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Example2: Clock Example
Better control can come from the
transformation parameters being
functions of other variables
Simple example:A clock with
second, minute and hour hands
Hands should rotate together
Express all the motions in
terms of a “seconds”variable
Whole clock is animated by
varying the seconds parameter
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Example3: Hierarchical Grouping of Objects
• Logical organization of scene
chair table ground
table fruits
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Example3: Adding Transformations
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Example3: Hierarchical Transformation of
Objects
• Transforms position
logical groupings of
objects within the scene
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Example 4
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Example 5
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