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To animate virtual puppet interactively: Detect user’s body against uniform background and find approximate location for 2D skeleton; use mathematical model to compute 3D skeleton.
Stacie creates things in three dimensions. During her internship with Naval Undersea Warfare Center, she created a 3D version of Newport’s famous Cliff Walk for the Second Life online “virtual world.” In URI’s computer science/applied math program, she creates models and animations. And in Taiwan, as a member of URI’s 3D Group for Interactive Visualization with Professor Jean-Yves Harve, she created an interactive puppet application displayed at the national airport, and transformed Kun Shan University’s live orchestral performance into a multimedia experience. Best yet, she recently began her new job as a software engineer. She calls her work “the perfect balance between computer science and art.” STACIE WALEYKO—Middletown, RI, Class of 2012. Majors: Computer Science; Mathematics. JOEL BARRUOS—Providence, RI, Class of 2011. Major: Computer Science (now enrolled in URI’s master’s degree program).
For more students earning A&S degrees, see pp. 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26.
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