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Article #632: DANCE Dynamic Animation and Control Environment software v072506 released

Created at 19:41 Jul 25, 2006 by ashapiro

I have created a new version of the DANCE software with much better ODE stability, many bug fixes and interface additions.

http://www.magix.ucla.edu/dance/

DANCE is free for non-commerical use and runs on both Windows and Linux. DANCE is written using FLTK 2.0.

Features
    

• Import/Export of motion capture
            
      
• Ragdoll simulation
            
      
• Physical simulation of characters with dynamic control
            
      
• Pose based dynamic control
            
      
• Creation of videos from OpenGL or high quality output via POVRay http://www.povray.org
            
      
• Integrated with the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) http://www.ode.org
            
      
• Easy plugin interface and example code
            
      
• All source code included

The DANCE discussion group can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dancedev/

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