HANIM 1.0 Compliant VRML97 Humanoid Models

Created by: Matt Beitler

See Matt's NOTES about these models for advice, compatiblity information and problems... SOME VERSIONS OF COSMOPLAYER HAVE PROBLEMS WITH SOME OF THESE MODELS, so if your VRML viewer locks up, look at the NOTES.

MAX Humanoid Model Series (Anthropometric Models of Children): MAX_001 - "Ageable" Humanoid Children, Ages 2.0 - 19.0 HANIM 1.0 Compliant with LOD nodes (postscript of the VRML) Anthropometric Models of Children - Details and more models
Marvin Model Series: MARVIN_001 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant martian model (.gz) (postscript of the VRML) Why??? Because he is easy to make with simple geometry and he doesn't have a mouth!!!
Bimos Humanoid Model Series (BODY IS MADE OF SPHERES): BIMOS_JOINTCENTERS - joint center example A reference .wrl for HANIM members when creating humanoids BIMOS_002 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant with LOD nodes (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) (postscript of the VRML) BIMOS_002b - Bimos with Nancy's Interpolators Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D HANIM 1.0 Compliant (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) (.ps of the VRML) BIMOS_002c - Bimos with Kung-Fu Interpolators Interpolators from Matt Lewis at Ohio State HANIM 1.0 Compliant (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) (.ps of the VRML) BIMOS_002t - Bimos with my face (as a 5 year old) texture mapped to the head sphere (.gz) BIMOS_001 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) BIMOS_000 - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) BIMOS_001a - Bimos with "touchable" Joints HANIM 1.0 Compliant (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) BIMOS_000a - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) BIMOS_001b - Bimos with Nancy's Interpolators Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D HANIM 1.0 Compliant (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz) BIMOS_000b - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) (with whitespace) (with whitespace .gz)
Brain Model Series: BRAIN_002 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant lab mouse model with LOD (.gz) BRAIN_002cp - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) BRAIN_002b - HANIM 1.0 Compliant lab mouse model with LOD and with Nancy's Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D (.gz) BRAIN_002cpb - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) BRAIN_001 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant lab mouse model (.gz) BRAIN_001cp - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) BRAIN_001b - HANIM 1.0 Compliant lab mouse model with Nancy's Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D (.gz) BRAIN_001cpb - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz)
Hiro Humanoid Model Series: HIRO_002 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant male model with LOD (.gz) HIRO_002cp - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) HIRO_002b - HANIM 1.0 Compliant male model with LOD and with Nancy's Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D (.gz) HIRO_002cpb - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) HIRO_001 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant male model (.gz) HIRO_000 - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz)
Y.T. Humanoid Model Series: YT_002 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant female model with LOD (.gz) YT_002cp - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) YT_002b - HANIM 1.0 Compliant female model with LOD and with Nancy's Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D (.gz) YT_002cpb - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) YT_001 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant female model (.gz) YT_000 - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz)
Jake Humanoid Model Series: JAKE_002 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant male model with LOD (.gz) JAKE_002cp - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) JAKE_002b - HANIM 1.0 Compliant male model with LOD and with Nancy's Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D (.gz) JAKE_002cpb - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz)
Dilbert Humanoid Model Series: DILBERT_002 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant model with Dilbert's Geometry from Protozoa (.gz) (postscript of the VRML) DILBERT_002cp - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz) DILBERT_002b - HANIM 1.0 Compliant model with Dilbert's Geometry from Protozoa and with Nancy's Interpolators from Cindy at 3Name3D (.gz) (postscript of the VRML) DILBERT_002cpb - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz)
Egghead Humanoid Model Series: EGGHEAD_001 - HANIM 1.0 Compliant model (.gz) EGGHEAD_000 - works on 95/NT CosmoPlayer (.gz)

How to make your own Egghead Model:

Coming Soon???

NOTES:

I welcome comments/questions/advise (beitler@graphics.cis.upenn.edu)...

The main problem which people have encountered when viewing these models in CosmoPlayer I detailed in an email to the HANIM Working Group: http://www.ywd.com/cindy/h-anim/archive/0645.html... Problem is that there is an exponential growth of the running time, in relation to the depth of nested PROTOs in the scene graph... I have made CosmoSoftware aware of the problem... The table got screwed up in that archive (its not a fixed width font), so here is the comparison of the loading times and scene graph depth:

Scene Graph Depth            Loading Time of Nested PROTOs until viewable

-----------------            --------------

11                           3.68 sec

12                           4.64 sec

13                           6.67 sec

14                           9.73 sec

15                           16.22 sec

16                           28.93 sec

17                           55.11 sec

18                           107.11 sec (1 min 47.11 sec)

19                           212.38 sec (3 min 32.38 sec)

20                           422.57 sec (7 min 2.57 sec)

21                           846.11 sec (14 min 6.11 sec)

The *_002.wrl models are completely HANIM compliant, and include Level Of Detail nodes for the body Segments... Experiment with the Image Quality and the View Detail settings of your VRML Browser to determine the level which is best for your computer... Also, when viewing the *_002.wrl models in the best "Image Quality", the 'Far View' is the viewpoint at which the LOD nodes force the model to become low quaility...

All of the *_001.wrl models are completely HANIM compliant, but if you are using 95/NT CosmoPlayer (or an old version of the IRIX CosmoPlayer, get the latest version) they will either crash it or will be extremely slow when doing animations (they will always crash the 95/NT version of CosmoPlayer)... This is because of a bug in CosmoPlayer (problem with nested PROTOtypes)...

The *_000.wrl and *_002cp*.wrl models aren't HANIM 1.0 compliant (because they use Transform and Shape nodes instead of Joint and Segment nodes, respectively), but they will work in 95/NT CosmoPlayer... Once SGI fixes the PROTO bug with CosmoPlayer, I will destroy the *_000.wrl and *_002cp*.wrl models with extreme prejudice...

The *a.wrl models include a special script which allows certain joints to be "touched" and manipulated using the mouse... I just did this because I was thinking about it....

The *b.wrl models include interpolator nodes which were created for Nancy... Nancy was created by Cindy of 3Name3d and it was incredibly easy to apply the interpolators to my models (1 cut operation, 1 paste operation!:~)... No renaming of ROUTEs!!!

Check individual wrl file for copyright information

I have made multiple formats of the models...

If you want to look at the actual VRML text, download one of the "whitespace" models (00*_ws.wrl)... They are tab indented and are easy to read... The other files (the files without the "_ws" in the name) have had all of the redundant whitespace removed (to improve network transfer time)... I mainly put the "whitespace" versions here to make it easier for everyone to look at the actual VRML text.
If you are trying to optimize transfer time, grab a .gz file...
I made the non-gzipped version available, for those VRML engines which can't uncompress, the non-gzipped versions will probably go away soon...

Today (October 2nd) I viewed the Dilbert VRML animation which Protozoa put together... Very cool, I must of spent and hour watching 3 little animations again and again (yes I am easily entertained)... So what I thought would be cool was to make the Dilbert character compliant with our HANIM Spec... I took a bit of doing, but the Dilbert above is the result of all of that... The original Dilbert was constructed in pieces (mainly) which were interpolated/oriented according to the Pohemus sensors that Protozoa uses with Alive... To make Dilbert HANIM compliant, I needed to push those segments into my HANIM scene graph and create the proper JOINT rotation centers... -eMpTy

KNOWN PROBLEMS:

CosmoPlayer for the PC hasn't implemented transparency for the Material node, so you will see red spheres on the Bimos model with "touchable" Joints (*a.wrl)... I expect they will fix this in their next CosmoPlayer release (soon they say)....

FIXED PROBLEMS:

The problem was "Y.T. currently has Hiro's joint centers... Why??? Because I messed up", but that is all fixed now...

Thanks to Matt Lewis and Anthony Scott-Hodgetts for pointing out problems with these models.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~beitler/hanim/models.html

Matthew Beitler. <beitler@graphics.cis.upenn.edu>