A 3-D string figure display system for animating cat´s cradle game

Author

Budiarto, Rahmat ; Yamada, Masashi ; Seki, Hirohisa ; Itoh, Hidenori

Author_Institution

Dept. of AI & Comput. Sci., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

13-16 Oct 1997

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Implements a display system for cat´s cradle game animation in 3D. The input to our system, finger actions, originates from a user. Based on this input, we animate the finger actions and display an operated pattern of string figures. A stabilizing procedure is in charge of obtaining a stable state of the string figures. Processing string figures on a computer is difficult, since the string´s dynamics are still unknown. Our system uses a set-of-crossings representation method for processing string figures. We employ some local transformations of the string figures to stabilize them. Furthermore, topological characteristics of the string figures can be observed

Keywords

computational geometry; computer animation; stability; three-dimensional displays; topology; 3D string figure display system; animation; cat´s cradle game; finger actions; local transformations; set-of-crossings representation method; stabilizing procedure; string dynamics; topological characteristics; Animation; Artificial intelligence; Computer displays; Computer science; Equations; Fingers; Mice; Shape; Three dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics and Applications, 1997. Proceedings., The Fifth Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8028-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCCGA.1997.626169

Filename

626169