~ Computer Graphics, Volume 23, Number 3, July 1989 Good Vibrations: M o d a l D y n a m i c s for G r a p h i c s a n d A n i m a t i o n Alex Pentland and John Williams Vision Sciences Group, E15-410 The Media Lab, M.I.T. 20 Ames St., Cambridge MA 02138 Abstract M a n y of t h e p r o b l e m s of s i m u l a t i n g and rendering c o m p l e x systems of non-rigid o b j e c t s can be minimized by describing t h e g e o m e t r y a n d d y n a m i c s separately, using r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s o p t i m i z e d for either one or the other, and t h e n coupling these repr e s e n t a t i o n s together. W e describe a s y s t
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