Three Dimension Human Body Format and Its Virtual Avatar Animation Application

Paper introduced the concept of human body skeleton model, and discussed two kinds of commonly used 3D human body format. One is BVH file, currently the basis human body format supported by Poser and 3DMax. The other is H-ANIM standard, which is tightly integrated with VRML. Then we introduced VRML avatar explorer mode. Finally gives out a practical avatar animation application example in our developed virtual Yinxu museum.