aceslowman

So this is proving to be a little more complicated that I had initially expected, so I'm just looking for possible methods for achieving this. I have points representing limbs coming in through a Kinect. What I NEED though is a human silhouette. Right now I'm exploring the use of jit.gl.path to draw around the skeleton.

While searching for answers, I was told that the "offset problem" is fairly complicated to implement purely through math (

https://seant23.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/anoffsetalgorithm.pdf),

 especially since I'm not all that great at Jitter's gl.sketch and gl.path.

The idea that I am currently thinking about is manually creating a human shaped polyline path, and then using those limb points to transform portions of that path (kind of like a proportional edit tool in 3D modeling softwares). Does anyone have some advice?

While searching for answers, I was told that the "offset problem" is fairly complicated to implement purely through math (https://seant23.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/anoffsetalgorithm.pdf), especially since I'm not all that great at Jitter's gl.sketch and gl.path. 

The idea that I am currently thinking about is manually creating a human shaped polyline path, and then using those limb points to transform portions of that path (kind of like a proportional edit tool in 3D modeling softwares). Does anyone have some advice?


using-a-skeleton-from-kinect-to-draw-a-moving-human-shaped-silhouette

Hi. I have examples of doing this in the help file included with dp.kinect2. You can download it at 

In there you can see how to draw lines connecting all the joints; together being a "stick man" skeleton. You could modify it to also draw cylindars between points, long cubes with textures, paths, etc. You can also see in the help file an example of drawing a pointcloud. That pointcloud can also be filtered so that only points associated with recognized bodies are drawn.

If you are using dp.kinect and the original model Kinect, some of examples will also work by you just removing the "2" from the object name.

Hi. I have examples of doing this in the help file included with dp.kinect2. You can download it at http://hidale.com/shop/dp-kinect2/

Using a skeleton from Kinect to draw a moving, human shaped silhouette