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Re:As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video) by brianlash on Saturday May 24, 2008 @03:40AM (#198671)
Whoah, that's so awesome. The M&M Man manipulation is nuts.

Jeff Han demos something really similar -- almost to the T -- in his TED presentation of the Microsoft Surface technology. He even mentions "the mesh," which leads me to wonder if it's the same rigid-as-possible approach. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ at around 7:30.

Re:As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video) by anand on Saturday May 24, 2008 @01:30PM (#198899)
Nitpick #2, Jeff Han references that he's implementing this rigid as possible paper at about 8:20. Jeff is a big fan of research and implements a lot of existing techniques invented by others in his demos.

I work in the same lab as Tomer who did this paper, Big Ups Tomer!

Re:As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video) by GHFigs on Saturday May 24, 2008 @12:23PM (#198865)
Nitpick: Jeff Han is affiliated with NYU and his own company, Perceptive Pixel, not Microsoft.
Re:As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation (awesome video) by brianlash on Saturday May 24, 2008 @04:49PM (#199043)
Yep, you're right.