Algorithms

A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a technique that allows animators to have a more significant scale of control over their works. The researchers have developed a method that produces mathematical functions known as "barycentric coordinates," which indicate how 2D and 3D shapes can move, stretch, and contour in space.…

Artists behind animated movies and video games may soon have greater control over their animations through a new technique devised by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The approach employs barycentric coordinates, mathematical functions that articulate how 2D and 3D figures can be manipulated through space. Existing solutions are often limited, providing a single…

A new technique for maximizing control over animations has been developed by researchers at MIT. The technique offers animators the ability to mold the movements and image of characters in 2D and 3D animations to their individual requirements, through the use of barycentric coordinates, mathematical functions that determine how shapes flex, bend and move in…

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a technique that enables digital artists more versatility in how they move their animations of 2D and 3D shapes. Traditionally, artists had limited choices when it came to defining movements using mathematical functions known as barycentric coordinates. The researchers suggest that existing solutions are rigid and…