http://thursdaynight.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/activiteiten/femke-snelting-reads-biovision-hierarchy-standard
20:00 Klaas, Katia: Brief introduction HNI mentioning the ARTs Retreat and the Volume Insert http://snelting.domainepublic.net/files/ARTs_Volume_25-29.pdf
20:10 Simone: Introduction to motioncapture in relation to mocap research
20:25 Reading of the BioVision Hierarchy file format
- Why .bvh (Possible Bodies, looking at vs looking with technology, .bvh = generic + legible)
- Reading .bvh
- Data structure, how it functions
- Cascading bodies
- XML: body as document, hip = root, inverse kinematics
- Rigid bodies
- degrees of freedom, pivots, moving skeleton, not fascia
- From Marey to computation
- Fileformat ecologies, sciences of life and death. Biological research, hollywood, from gaming to military
- Frames vs vectors, Euler angles
- From capture to notation
- The discovery of the hip, Noa Eshkol - Sharon Lockart
- Portanova
22:00 end
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