The Dragon Wing

This wing of the Imager Gallery contains images of surfaces built using Hierarchical B-splines. All the images in this wing were generated using David Forsey 's interactive modeller for Hierarchical B-spline surfaces, called "Dragon".

There are mutiple rooms in this wing. If you know the room you want to go to, you can click on its name below:

• FaceMaker:
  Currently down until we get a new server running
  Create facial expressions over the web for a Dragon, dog's head, haida mask and human face.
  
• Facial Modeling and Animation
• Dec 1996 Tutorial on Facial Animation with Hsplines.
• Dec 1996 Arbitrary Topology HSplines
• Body Modelling and Animation
• Hierarchical B-splines
• MPEG Animations of Hierarchical B-Splines
• Approximating Digitized Surfaces using Hierarchical B-Splines
  Includes animation of Cyberware scan of Spock.
• Hierarchical splines storage cost. A Hierarchical spline surface may require only 10% or less of the space required to represent the surface as a traditional B-spline or Bezier surface. Also available from this page is the definition for the dragon head shown below.

Here's a sample of the models created with hierarchical splines. You'll find out how these were made through this site:

For detailed information on optimally viewing and downloading these images, click here .

You can also go through the rooms sequentially:

Hierarchical B-Splines:

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Last updated by David Forsey on 18 Jan. 96.