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Advanced ordinary differential equation based head modelling for Chinese marionette art preservation
Author(s) -
Liang Hui,
Chang Jian,
Yang Xiaosong,
You Lihua,
Bian Shaojun,
Zhang Jian Jun
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
computer animation and virtual worlds
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.225
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1546-427X
pISSN - 1546-4261
DOI - 10.1002/cav.1651
Subject(s) - carving , computer science , ode , head (geology) , representation (politics) , set (abstract data type) , string (physics) , action (physics) , cultural heritage , artificial intelligence , computer graphics (images) , visual arts , art , mathematics , history , literature , archaeology , quantum mechanics , geomorphology , mathematical physics , programming language , geology , physics , politics , political science , law
Puppetry has been a popular art form for many centuries in different cultures, which becomes a valuable and fascinating heritage assert. Traditional Chinese marionette art with over 2000 years history is one of the most representative forms offering a mixture of stage performance of singing, dancing, music, poetry, opera, story narrative and action. Apart from a set of string rules, which controls the dynamics, head carving skill is another important pillar in this art form. This paper addresses the heritage preservation of the marionette head carving by digitalizing the head models with a novel modelling technique using ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The technique has been specially tailored to suit the modelling complexity and the need of accurate description of shapes. It offers smoothly sewing ODE swept patches to represent the distinct features of a marionette head with sharp variance of local geometry. Such features otherwise are difficult to model and capture accurately, which may require a great effort and tedious handcrafting of an experienced modeller, when using other representation forms like polygons. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.