The Mathematics of Body Shape -- The Secret Lives of Triangles in Hollywood

18 July 2015

13:57

Are digital human actors going to take over the big screen? What is the technology behind digital bodies? What is body shape? How can we model it? How can we animate it? This talk an accessible overview of human body shape modeling presented at "Science Notes" in Tübingen. It is designed as a short, entertaining, and informative talk for a general audience with a basic science background. Despite the word "mathematics" in the title, no math background is assumed. To dive deeper, you can find out more about our research on body shape here: http://ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/theme/Body%20Shape The speaker: Michael J. Black, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen, Germany. http://ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/person/black The venue: Science Notes, May 7, 2015, Tuebingen. http://sciencenotes.de/ Many people contributed to this talk, in particular Matthew Loper, Gerard Pons-Moll, Javier Romero, Federica Bogo, and Naureen Mahmood.