Chap 002
Kinematic Diagrams & Degrees of Freedom
Character Animation CSE 191A: Seminar on Video Game Programming Lecture 5: Character Animation UCSD, Spring, 2003 Instructor: Steve Rotenberg.
Definitions – Link – Kinematic pair – Kinematic chain – Mechanism – Machine – Degree of Freedom Mobility – Kutzbach criterion (Gruebler’s equation)
Ken Youssefi Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept., SJSU 1 Kinematic (stick or skeleton) Diagrams A striped-down (simplified) drawing showing the essentials.
Skeletal Motion, Inverse Kinematics
Introduction to Character Animation