Animating Horse Gaits and Transitions

Murphy, James E.; Carr, Hamish; O'Neill, Michael

Animating Horse Gaits and Transitions

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215-222.pdf (4.96 MB)

Date

2010

Authors

Murphy, James E.
Carr, Hamish
O'Neill, Michael

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Animations of horses are commonly used for entertainment purposes. A realistic animated model must move with a gait appropriate to its velocity. We present a kinematic animation system in which a horse model moves using gaits and transitions based on predictions from Dynamic Similarity theory. A Genetic Programming technique is used to evolve gait motion with dynamically adjustable limb extent. The system is controlled in real-time using a MIDI controller system based around the model's Froude number. We were successful in producing high quality animations of the horse's natural gaits and transitions.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/TPCG/TPCG10/215-222
,
booktitle = {Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
},
editor = {John Collomosse and Ian Grimstead
},
title = {{Animating Horse Gaits and Transitions
}},
author = {Murphy, James E. and 
Carr, Hamish and 
O'Neill, Michael
},
year = {2010
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-75-3
},
DOI = {/10.2312/LocalChapterEvents/TPCG/TPCG10/215-222
}
}