Learning Tai Chi with 3D?
I have recently started learning Chen-style Tai Chi. I like the activity and my instructor, but as I am finding out, it requires more than just a few minutes of practice to improve performance. I have started looking for sources for additional help. Recorded videos are very helpful as they can be a tool for practising at home, but the computer nerd in me wonders if there is a better way. What I came up with is to create 3D animations in a similar way to a video recording, but with the added benefit that the user could set the point of view of the scene at will. So I started to look around to see how that could be achieved, as my knowledge of the field is second to none. I learned that motion capture could be used to obtain the motion pattern from a human performer, and that piece of information could be later used to animate a 3D character in a virtual environment. However, the way this is done sometimes requires expensive equipment that may also interfere with the ran...