OptiMo

OptiMo is an "optimization-guided motion editing" system for authoring 3D character animations. OptiMo allows animators to effectively utilize the power of numerical optimization while keeping appropriate control.

Project Web Page

http://koyama.xyz/project/optimo/

Dependencies

Prerequisites

Eigen 3 http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/ (brew install eigen)
Qt (5.6 or higher) http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ (brew install qt@5)

Included via gitsubmodule

NLopt https://nlopt.readthedocs.io/
json11 https://github.com/dropbox/json11
tinycolormap https://github.com/yuki-koyama/tinycolormap
nlopt-util https://github.com/yuki-koyama/nlopt-util
three-dim-util https://github.com/yuki-koyama/three-dim-util
parallel-util https://github.com/yuki-koyama/parallel-util

Included directly

RBDL https://bitbucket.org/rbdl/rbdl/ (their source codes for v2.5.0 are included in this repository under the zlib license)

Runtime

OpenGL 2.1 (or compatible with 2.1)

Compilation Instruction

CMake https://cmake.org/ is used for managing source codes. OptiMo can be built by, for example,

git clone https://github.com/yuki-koyama/optimo.git --recursive
cd optimo
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make

Known Issues (Need Help!)

OptiMo is currently tested on macOS only. It is possible that OptiMo could not be built or run with other platforms such as Windows or Linux. Pull requests are welcome.

Publication

Yuki Koyama and Masataka Goto. 2018. OptiMo: Optimization-Guided Motion Editing for Keyframe Character Animation. In Proceedings of 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18), pp.161:1--161:12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173735

Licensing

OptiMo is dual-licensed; You may use OptiMo under either LGPLv3 or our commercial (proprietary) license. See the LICENSE files for details.

Contributing

Pull requests are highly welcome. Please be aware that any contribution to this repository will be licensed under the above license condition.

Authors

Yuki Koyama
Masataka Goto

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