“Data Driven: The Story of Franz K.” by Landreth

  • ©Christopher (Chris) Landreth  North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC)


Conference:


SIGGRAPH Video Review:


Track:


    21

Title:


    Data Driven: The Story of Franz K.

Director(s):


Company / Institution / Agency:


  • North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC)

Description:


    This piece is a presentation testbed to evaluate and test data representation techniques in the context of human character animation. These techniques include volume-filling rendering, dense particle systems, audio mapping, and human facial expression mapping.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: Silicon Graphics 310 VGXT, 240 GTX,
    Personal Irises, Indigo Elans

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: SOFTIMAGE Inc. 4D Creative Environment,
    NCSA particle modeler and renderer, NCSA
    voxel modeler and renderer.


Additional Contributors:


    Producer
    North Carolina Supercomputing Center (a division of MCNC)
    Contributors
    Director, Animator: Christopher Landreth;
    Visualization Development: Dave Bock, Tom Palmer (Cray Research Inc.)
    Sound, Sonification: Robin Bargar
    System Administration: Rich Misenheimer
    Computational Data: Jeff Knerr (smoke transport simulations), William Katz (Neurosurgical Visualization Lab, University of Virginia) (voxel head data), Gottfreid Meyer-Kress (chaotic facial animation data).
    Post-produced by: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
    Editor: Robert Patterson
    Titles: Lynn Gephardt;
    Audio Post Production: Jay Rosenstein
    Narrator: Vivian Chelette
    Character animation software courtesy of. SOFTIMAGE Inc.

    Special Thanks
    Donna Cox, Vince Jurgens, Ray Idaszak, Todd Seeman
    Sponsor: North Carolina Supercomputing Center (a division of MCNC)

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