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.
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Result of morphing components
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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
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Resulting skin (painted by hand).

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