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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I would think that this might be easier
with DAZ or Poser as an intermediate step.<br>
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Ron<br>
On 19/07/2012 6:49 PM, Maltzan, Christopher wrote:<br>
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<div>I've been using blender for a long time and I am currently
working on a senior thesis project. It's a fairly large project
dealing with automated avatar creation for use by sketch
artists, video games (and mostly) psychology experiments. The
driving idea behind the project is to use a genetic algorithm to
allow a user to create a realistic avatar from a new point of
view. Instead of dragging a sliding bar to change specific
features, the user will be able to pick from a group of avatars
the "most liked" avatars and then future generations of avatars
will contain avatars similar to previously chosen avatars.</div>
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<div>I am writing to you now to ask specifically about advice or
comments on on connecting my software (genetic algorithm and
GUI) to blender which would then make relatively simple changes
to a base model and then send renders back to my software. In my
mind, the hardest part is teaching blender to make changes to
the avatar. Do you have any advice for where I can start?</div>
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<div>My idea was that I would make a plugin which could select
pre-determined vertices and move them on the xyz grid to
specific pre-programmed coordinates or select a group of
vertices and then scale them to be slightly larger (to make an
avatar have the trait of thick arms for example). Obviously an
over-simplification, but you get the idea. I will of course make
the software open to the community :)</div>
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<div>Thank you for your help!</div>
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<div>Chris</div>
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