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JACK: a toolkit for manipulating articulated figures

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Cary B. Phillips and

Norman I. BadlerAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '88: Proceedings of the 1st annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User Interface Software

January 1988

Pages 221 - 229

https://doi.org/10.1145/62402.62436

Published: 03 January 1988 Publication History

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The problem of positioning and manipulating three dimensional articulated figures is often handled by ad hoc techniques which are cumbersome to use. In this paper, we describe a system which provides a consistent and flexible user interface to a complex representation for articulated figures in a 3D environment. Jack is a toolkit of routines for displaying and manipulating complex geometric figures, and it provides a method of interactively manipulating arbitrary homogeneous transformations with a mouse. These transformations may specify the position and orientation of figures within a scene or the joint transformations within the figures themselves. Jack combines this method of 3D input with a flexible and informative screen management facility to provide a user-friendly interface for manipulating three dimensional objects.

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JACK: a toolkit for manipulating articulated figures
1. Software and its engineering
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    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
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