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  • J Milo Taylor wrote a new blog post: AvatarWFAE Conference: Abstract Submission   1 year, 11 months ago · View

    http://suborg.net/pdfs/WFAE-2011.pdf WFAE 2011: Crossing Listening Paths Keynote Speakers: R. Murray Schafer, Hildegard Westerkamp, Katharine Norman, Christopher W. Clark, Allen S. Weiss CALL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS Soundscapes are seldom simple; on the contrary, they tend to be complex sounding systems continuously changing in time, which no art or science can approach in depth on its own. Listening [...]

  • Stuart-Dunn wrote a new blog post: AvatarInteresting roundhouse paper   2 years ago · View

    Including a critique of the so-called ‘sunwise’ theory of occupation. It references the work at Butser. This kind of thing forms important background to any reconstruction work we do there. USING AND ABANDONING ROUNDHOUSES: A REINTERPRETATION OF THE EVIDENCE FROM LATE BRONZE AGE–EARLY IRON AGE SOUTHERN ENGLAND: LEO WEBLEY It has recently been demonstrated that [...]

  • Kirk Woolford wrote a new blog post: AvatarImproving Motion Capture Import & Workflow   2 years ago · View

    ABSTRACT Motion capture animation is both faster and at times more realistic than a human animator, but it can hard to work with, for a variety of reasons. While Blender has had BVH import (a popular format for mocap data) for a while, it lacks tools to deal with this type of data properly. My [...]

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  • J Milo Taylor wrote a new blog post: AvatarC.A.A Conference: University of Birmingham: MiPP Paper   2 years, 1 month ago · View

    COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY – UK CHAPTER A paper from the MiPP team was submitted to The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity (IAA) at the University of Birmingham and the CAA UK Chapter committee invited us to present at the CAA UK Chapter conference 2011. The conference was held at the Institute [...]

  • Stuart-Dunn wrote a new blog post: AvatarForming questions   2 years, 2 months ago · View

    The question about our MiPP project which I’m most often asked is ‘why?’ In fact that this is the whole project’s fundamental research question. As motion capture technologies become cheaper, more widely available, less dependent on equipment in fixed locations such as studios, and less dependent on highly specialist technical expertise to set them up and [...]

  • J Milo Taylor wrote a new blog post: AvatarPresent Day (dis)Embodiment in a Virtual Iron Age   2 years, 2 months ago · View

    In late February, the MiPP team convened at the University of Bedford, where Helen Bailey hosted two day’s of motion capture. The objectives were to test a few aspects of the technology and methodology which have arisen over the last few weeks. Key apects of the sessions included: – real-time emplacement of present day motion-actors [...]

  • Stuart-Dunn wrote a new blog post: AvatarDeath in Motion: Funeral Processions in the Roman Forum   2 years, 5 months ago · View

    Recent research from the University of California. Three funeral parades are analysed and re-presented using immersive digital technologies. The work uses phenomenological analysis to explore the intricate choreographies of Roman funerals and lays the groundwork for a comparision of the use and manipulation of architecture and imagery in the mid-Republican and Imperial periods. (Favro and [...]

  • J Milo Taylor wrote a new blog post: AvatarSilchester Visit: Aug 2nd 2010: Audio Recording   2 years, 9 months ago · View

    Making a 6-channel synchronised field recording. Carlos Guedes putting the recorders in place and each location being mapped by the site manager.

    Short Stereo Extract
    “Spoil Monkey”: Young Archaeologists: Male to Female Exchange, mocap team in background.