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- Publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1978 by ACM Inc.
- ISSN
- 0163-5743
- DOI
- 10.1145/1061458.1061459
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
A study of improved computer graphic representation of the human figure is being conducted under a National Science Foundation grant. Special emphasis is given bio-stereometrics as a primary data base from which applications requiring a variety of levels of detail may be prepared. For example, a human figure represented by a single point can be very useful in overview plots of a population. A crude ten point figure can be adequate for queuing theory studies and simulated movement of groups. A one hundred point figure can usefully be animated to achieve different overall body activities including male and female figures. A one thousand point figure similarly animated, begins to be useful in anthropometrics and kinesiology gross body movements. Extrapolations of this order-of-magnitude approach ultimately should achieve very complex data bases and a program which automatically selects the correct level of detail for the task at hand. See Summary Figure 1.
Journal
ACM SIGDA Newsletter – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Jun 1, 1978