Chris Li (left) and Dr. Peter Hall have developed a program that automatically life-like tree images. (Credit: Nic Delves-Broughton)
A new computer animation technique has been recently developed to aid animators in creating life-like objects automatically.
Dr. Peter Hall at the University of Bath explained: "rendering trees has always been a headache for animators. Trees move in irregular ways, and it's very hard to achieve natural-looking movement."
In many ways, several scientists have created algorithms to improve on this profession. However, the more the system gets sophisticated, the more it becomes expensive for film producers.
So, computer scientists Dr. Peter Hall and Chris Li, of the University's Department of Computer Science, created a software that will allow the computer "watch" actual video footage of a tree to enable it to make computer-animations automatically that mimic the way real branches and leaves move in the wind.
This new rendering technique uses an algorithm that copies these natural movement and uses this data to "grow" lots more trees that are individually unique.
Chris Li, who developed this system as part of his PhD at Bath, said "in the future we want to use this same technique to animate other objects like clouds, water, fire and smoke."
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