MoCap for Artists

4 Cleaning and Editing Data

The very first thing you need to do after capturing data is cleaning and editing the data. You want to do as little data cleaning and editing as possible. Good preproduction, especially a well-thought-out shot list, and the best calibration possible help you to generate good data. That reduces the need for data cleaning and editing. However, there is always some need for data cleaning and editing caused by the limitations of the capture system, space, and capture subjects’ physical abilities, and other unpreventable reasons. So, you need to know some techniques for cleaning and editing data. In the first half of this chapter we will focus on cleaning and editing marker data; in the second half applying marker data ...