Research and consulting services company Textile/Clothing Technology Corporation, TC2, recently debuted its new feature “ImageTwin™” or “Avatar from 3D body scan data”, as a part of its 3D body scan processing hardware/software offering as well as an online service.
“Creation of high fidelity to realistic or 3D Avatars (digital replicas of humans) for visual applications on and offline is perhaps the most critical aspect which enables virtual worlds to achieve a high level of realism. In today’s virtual worlds, 3D Avatars have relatively low resolution. However, the future is in high fidelity lifelike people, scenes, and real-world interactivity,” states Dr. David Bruner, V-P Technology Development, TC2.
Where typical 3D scans take days for manual data processing and hours for automatic processing, ImageTwin has the ability to generate an Avatar automatically in only a few seconds, capturing the full 3D detail present in the original 3D body scans. The process utilizes a “reference 3D template” of the Avatar and morphs its shape to match the 3D body scan data. Currently TC2 is working with more than ten commercial reference templates to enable various applications with its Avatar, including human models from Daz3D, Poser by Smith Micro, and numerous apparel industry software application models. In addition, TC2 is supporting the open-source X3D format which allows direct access to the joint hierarchy of the human figures as well as the vertices of the geometry that make up the individual body segments in a way that allows animation to be generated in a model independent manner.
