3D Modeling and Animation: Synthesis and Analysis Techniques for the Human Body (Repost)

The emergence of virtual reality applications and human-like interfaces has given rise to the necessity of producing realistic models of the human body. Building and animating a synthetic, cartoon-like, model of the human body has been practiced for many years in the gaming industry and advances in the game
platforms have led to more realistic models, although still cartoon-like. The issue of building a virtual human clone is still a matter of ongoing research and relies on effective algorithms which will determine the 3D structure of an actual human being and duplicate this with a three-dimensional graphical model, fully textured, by correct mapping of 2D images of the human on the 3D model.