Animated Surface Pasting

Abstract

Surface pasting is a composition method in which a feature surface is attached to a base surface to provide details on the underlying surface. In computer animation, a lot of time is spent modeling and surface pasting is a modeling method that can quickly and easily model faces and other objects with small details. Thus, surface pasting may be a useful animation technique because it reduces the modeling time. However, it is unclear whether pasted surfaces will have problems such as distortion in animation. In this thesis, surface pasting was combined into the animation process to see how pasted surfaces behave in animation. In general, while surface pasting behaved as desired in animation, there are some situations where it behaves poorly. Most of these bad situations can be avoided or corrected by the animator.

The Paper

ftp://cs-archive.uwaterloo.ca/cs-archive/CS-98-19/TechReport.ps.Z (compressed PostScript, 2800kb)

Bibliography Entry

@mastersthesis{tsang99,
    author = "C. L. F. Tsang",
    title = "Animated Surface Pasting",
    year = "1998",
    school = "University of Waterloo",
    address = "Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1",
    note = "Available on WWW as
mbox{ftp://cs-archive.uwaterloo.ca/cs-archive/CS-98-19/}
}