Baseball Swing

This example features a person swinging a baseball bat inside the recording studio. A director might select a single camera that provides a good view of the swing from the side (as in the above), but you might prefer to

  • circle around as the batter swings... (518464 bytes)
  • or stop the batter (446204 bytes)
  • drop from above... (83444 bytes)
  • ...chasing a virtual ball (76580 bytes)
  • pitch the ball (61720 bytes)
  • be the BALL! (122280 bytes)

    A completely different way to look at this event is as an animated 3D model (2 MBytes, gzip'ed Open Inventor file). This model extracts the appearance of the surfaces, leaving only surface shape. (You will need to have a 3D scene viewer capable of handling Open Inventor files in order to make sense of this model. Also note that conversion to VRML 1.0 will eliminate the animation.) A static model (213070 Bytes, gzip'ed VRML) of one frame in the sequence is also available.
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