Equus: The Virtual Horse

3D Model Morphing

This is an example of morphing the canonical horse model to a novel horse. More details can be found in a related paper to appear in the Symposium on Computer Animation, 2002.

Pony Example

For more details on the pony morphing- click on any of the following images to take you to the pony example page .

Measurements
Target pony. 		Results
Result of morphing components 		Results
Resulting skin (painted by hand).
Percheron Example

For more details on the percheron (draft horse) morphing- click on any of the following images to take you to the percheron example page .

Target
Target Horse (a scale model). 		Results
Result of morphing components 		Results
Resulting skin (painted by hand).

Comparison with Canonical Horse
Results
Morphed pony with original, canonical horse. 		Results
Since the two horses have the same parameterizations, we can mix and match skin appearance models: A dappled brown pair... 		Results
A pair of bays...
Results
The structural hierarchies. 		Results
The bones... 		Results
all components, including muscles.
Results
The canonical horse with two morphed examples: the pony and percheron. 		Results
The components. 		Results
another view.
Results
A set of greys. 		Results
bays... 		Results
and browns...