Bio

Contact blog(-/a-*t/-S_i_g_n)rodolphe-vaillant.fr
Location Tokyo
Interests

Real-time character animation, skinning and rigging.
Mesh processing / deformation.
Implicit surface (distance field) modeling.
Game Dev.



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Papers

2021 - "Automatic shape adjustment at joints for the Implicit Skinning"
Olivier Hachette, Florian. Canezin, Rodolphe Vaillant, Nicolas Mellado &  Loïc Barthe. Computer & Graphics, proc. of SMI, 2021.

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2015 - PhD - "Implicit Skinning: Character Skin Deformation Guided by 3D Scalar Fields",
Rodolphe Vaillant. University of Victoria, Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse).

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2014 - "Robust Iso-Surface Tracking for Interactive Character Skinning"
Rodolphe Vaillant, Gaël Guennebaud, Loïc Barthe, Brian Wyvill, Marie-Paule Cani. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33(6), proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2014.

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2013 - "Implicit Skinning: Real-Time Skin Deformation with Contact Modeling"
Rodolphe Vaillant, Loïc Barthe, Gaël Guennebaud, Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rhomer, Brian Wyvill, Olivier Gourmel and Mathias Paulin. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 32(4), Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2013.

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2012 - "Déformation de la peau d'un personnage avec prise en compte des contacts"
Rodolphe Vaillant, Loïc Barthe, Gaël Guennebaud, Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rhomer and Brian Wyvill. Revue Electronique Francophone d'Informatique Graphique - AFIG 2012, 6(2), Best paper award AFIG/EGFR.

2010 - Fast Instruction-Accurate Simulation with SimNML
Hugues Cassé, Jonathan Barre, Rodolphe Vaillant, Pascal Sainrat. (regular paper). Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools (RAPIDO 2010), Heraklion, Crète, Grèce, 22/01/2010, January 2011. 

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Last update: 10/2011

His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred
to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never
claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circum-
stances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit.
Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the rains that their prayers
went up, not from the fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning of
prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine in the monastery of Ratri,
goddess of the Night. The high-frequency prayers were directed upward through
the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing into that golden cloud called the
Bridge of the Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as a bronze
rainbow at night and is the place where the red sun becomes orange at midday.
Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique...
-- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"