{"id":983,"date":"2016-08-30T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/?p=983"},"modified":"2016-08-30T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:14:33","slug":"formica-polyctena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/2016\/08\/30\/formica-polyctena\/","title":{"rendered":"Formica polyctena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ongoing projects and collaborations\u00a0the ScienceVis Lab has been involved in relates to how\u00a0animations of dynamic processes are\u00a0mentally processed and how educational animations can be designed to facilitate this processing.<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_HD_Pose_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-984\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_HD_Pose_01.jpg\" alt=\"Ant posed and rendered\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_HD_Pose_01.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_HD_Pose_01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_HD_Pose_01-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a>For an upcoming educational study, we are designing stimuli that depict ant locomotion. For these stimuli, we require a realistic\u00a0ant model and rig, which I have been working on recently. The rigging process involved determining what controls would be necessary, with the ability to match data from primary literature sources by verifying\u00a0measurements of angles and distances on the model.<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-985\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_02.png\" alt=\"Ant rig with segment angles\" width=\"600\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_02.png 1069w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_02-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_02-768x387.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-986\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_01.png\" alt=\"Ant rig with animation controls\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_01.png 1158w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_01-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Rig_01-768x442.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This animated gif shows a few of the possible model motions in action.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-987 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Jantzen_Ant_Rig.gif\" alt=\"In process rig showing ant motion\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" \/>Detail and textures were sculpted on to the model to increase the perception of realism.<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_displacment_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-988\" src=\"https:\/\/bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca\/sciencevislab\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_displacment_01.jpg\" alt=\"Ant &quot;displacement&quot; textures showing model detail\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_displacment_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_displacment_01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Ant_displacment_01-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a>The design of the dynamic nature of the stimuli is still in progress, but hopefully soon we will see this ant walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the ongoing projects and collaborations\u00a0the ScienceVis Lab has been involved in relates to how\u00a0animations of dynamic processes are\u00a0mentally processed and how educational animations can be designed to facilitate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ant","7":"category-research"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciencevis.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}