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Overview of Inverse Kinematics
- dyarosla 9y agoI mean.. it describes that Inverse Kinematics is and is used for, but literally none of the math that makes it work. More than a little disappointed.
- sbarre 9y agoIt does say it's an introductory article. Perhaps there are future parts coming later?
- beluis3d 9y agoHey, thanks for reading. There are a TON of ways to implement Inverse Kinematics, and I'm going to cover the most popular ones in coming articles. Do you have any preferred animation techniques you'd like me to cover? All of my articles will be available here: https://medium.com/unity3danimation https://medium.com/unity3danimation
- cbames89 9y agoI'll make a plug for software I wrote based on sequential quadratic programming. It performs significantly better than inverse Jacobian methods in the presence of high-dof and joint limits. Here's a link to the software and paper: https://bitbucket.org/traclabs/trac_ik https://bitbucket.org/traclabs/trac_ik
- bhouston 9y agoVery interesting. What is the best IK algorithm to implement in JavaScript given that it has to be small enough to download but also robust and fast and probably something one can implement without spending too much time on it? Probably an impossible question... but I figured I'd ask in the hopes there was something easy and obvious here.
- beluis3d 9y agoFABRIK: https://medium.com/unity3danimation/create-your-own-ik-in-unity3d-989debd86770 https://medium.com/unity3danimation/create-your-own-ik-in-un...
- beluis3d 9y agoInverse Jacobian Methods can be computationally expensive. I suggest using FABRIK methods (suggested for JavaScript). Algorithm and pseudo-code here: https://medium.com/unity3danimation/create-your-own-ik-in-unity3d-989debd86770 https://medium.com/unity3danimation/create-your-own-ik-in-un...
- CapacitorSet 9y agoYup, I felt the same. As someone who worked with FK and IK in robotics I was hoping for an overview of analytical and numerical methods, but I found only an explanation of joints and what are FK and IK.
- Isamu 9y agoThis is a good intuitive explanation of IK meant for someone who is doing 3d animation or modeling. Maybe not for somebody who would be actually developing kinematics, for whom an overview of the matrix math is needed. Given that, I still cannot understand WHY they use these user-unfriendly terms in animation and 3d modeling. Yeah, I developed inverse kinematics and coded them up. But even then we spoke in terms of world coordinates vs. joint coordinates. Joint coordinates -> you are specifying joint angles -> forward kinematics World coordinates -> you are specifying a point in world space -> inverse kinematics Really it is unhelpful to use the terms IK/FK with end users like animators and artists.
- gmiller123456 9y ago>But even then we spoke in terms of world coordinates vs. joint coordinates. World vs. joint coordinates might also generate some confusion, since joint coordinates are "world" coordinates too. And you can refer to the coordinates of a joint using "world" coordinates, which someone could easily refer to as a "joint coordinate". Of course, you can formally define exactly what these terms mean, but then you've lost all of the advantage of using common terms rather than more formal terms since you've replaced the common meaning of those terms with a formal one.