A THREE-DIMENSIONAL HUMAN BODY
MODELING SYSTEM
Derya PAKALIN
August, 2002
IZMIR
ABSTRACT
The focal point of this study is to study on human body modeling systems. It is
related about the construction of complete, three-dimensional representations of the
normal male and female human bodies in the computer environment. In this study, a
human body modeling system has been developed to define 3D models of the whole
human body. The system reads a new type file HBM (Human Body Model) as input
and uses triangular meshes to generate a parametric surface model to describe the
human body surface. In computer graphics, triangular meshes are a very standard
way of representing 3D surfaces sets of any object. The system also shows a set of
conceptual parameters to allow the users to modify the body size of the models in a
controllable way. A significant design issue of such a system is to find a reasonable
compromise between visual realism, ease of control and rendering speed. For reasons
of the inherent difficulty of accurately modeling an entity as complex as the human
body, the system requires improved computer graphics and modeling techniques,
complex algorithms, faster machines and 3D scanners.
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