With a bit of help from the authors I've added another huge high quality dataset to my Geno retargetings. This time the very nice InterAct dataset (hku-cg.github.io/interact/).

You can find it here: github.com/orangeduck/i...

Made a bare-bones Motion Matching implementation to test it: github.com/orangeduck/G...

Sadly I had to drop to 30fps because Python is so painfully slow even something as simple as Forward Kinematics can take several milliseconds. Eeek.

My latest article is on the problem of joint-error propagation - and some techniques for tackling it when doing Machine Learning or other data-driven numerical methods.

theorangeduck.com/page/joint-e...

I've added an appendix to my page on debug drawing text with lines with a contribution from @mikkomononen.bsky.social and his version of a non-monospaced font based on the Hershey Fonts Simplex characters:

theorangeduck.com/page/debug-d...

More than once I've wanted to debug draw text in a game scene but found it not as easy as expected. I made a lookup table that allows you to draw text via line segments. It was a fun little weekend project, even if I'm sure it's something people have done before!

theorangeduck.com/page/debug-d...

Time for another long blog post... and today it's all about how we handle the temporal aspect of animation data. And more specifically, how to approach things from a signal processing perspective, covering up-sampling, down-sampling, and everything in-between.

theorangeduck.com/page/filteri...

I've uploaded a retargeted version of the 100STYLE dataset matching the other datasets: github.com/orangeduck/1...

I wasn't sure if I should add it at first. The quality is lower due to the inertial capture, and it's missing finger motion, but overall I figured it's still worth it.

My latest article is about one of my favorite techniques in graphics - Müller's method of Polar Decomposition.

It also details some variations, including one which is ~2x faster to compute with more regular convergence.

theorangeduck.com/page/variati...