INDIAN TRADITIONAL DANCE: A VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE

1. INDIAN TRADITIONAL DANCE: A VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE Faridah Noor Mohd Noor Deputy Director Centre for Civilisational Dialogue University of Malaya 24th August 2005 Eculture BoFs 20TH APAN MEETINGS, TAIPEI, TAIWAN

2. Collaborators • University of Malaya Selvanathan Narainasamy Faridah Noor Mohd Noor and team members • University Putra Malaysia Suhaimi Napis and technical team members

3. OBJECTIVES • To capture the intricate moves of a traditional Indian dance to be kept as an audio-virtual library of this art form. • To create a Malaysian prototype of Malaysian traditional dances

4. Procedure • To create 3D data points from motion capture • To superimpose captured data on desired models • Rendering of the model • To create computer generated 3-D environment • To provide interaction with sensors and devices in order to register input from the user/audience • Development of Augmented Reality Dance

5. PRESENTATION • To present a video of the first phase of this project containing the digital images of the basic dance movements of a classical Indian dance. • Next two slides show the video presentation of the work in progress

8. FUTURE WORK To employ the prototype to archive other traditional Malaysian dances that forms a collaborative research marrying the Arts and IT. All stamps : Retrieved from http://www.filatelic.com/00-05/5dance.html

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