Study on Skeletal Animation in Virtual Reality

Abstract:

For taking the advantages of skeletal animation, different model should be treated separately during the drawing process. For the sophisticated character, skeletal animation can apply binary compression and the method of saving common sequence. Meanwhile, draw the advanced programmable GPU technology into the progress of dealing with the updating of skeletal animation vertex, then analysis and comparison its performance. The results show that the new algorithm will greatly reduce RAM utilization. And the introduction of GPU computing method can perfectly assist the CPU to complete a large number of graphics operations, reducing CPU utilization, thereby improve the efficiency of skeletal animation rendering fundamentally.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 433-435)
• Pages: 434-437
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.433-435.434
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Na Jiang, Wei Zhao
• Keywords: Programmable Graphic Process Unit, Skeletal Animation, Sophisticated Character, Virtual Reality (VR)

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