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Review of action as continuous movement between poses

The first comment is that this approach is quite flexible, since the (temporal) spacing can be chosen freely, allowing between-pose movement to be simple or quite complex. The advantage of this approach is it only requires one or two poses per second. The downside is that the action is synchronized less frequently.

The second comment is that movement is represented as descriptive data, so that movement specification could be embedded in DNA.

The third comment is that this representation is limited in not capturing and reflecting the relationship between the actor and the stage. The reprentation would happily show a normal walking sequence whether the actor is on the stage, on a cloud, on the bottom of the ocean, or standing on his head. The next module will start to address this issue.

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