readAMC: Read and Parse a AMC file

In gsimchoni/mocap: R interface to parsing and plotting Motion Capture files from the CMU Graphics Lab Database

Description

This function reads in and parses a AMC Motion Capture file and returns several useful objects

Usage

readAMC(amcFilePath, asf, in2cm = TRUE)

Arguments

amcFilePath	path to a .asf file
asf	ASF object read with readASF()
in2cm	a boolean indicating whether to convert inches to centimeters, defaults to TRUE

Value

a list containing:

D	a matrix of dimensions bones x frames containing raw (or converted to cm) AMC values
degrees	a named list containing for each bone the nFrames x 3 matrix with AMC Euler Angles
nFrames	no. of frames found in the AMC file
skeleton	a data frame containing the details for each bone, e.g. DOF, length, direction, angle

Note

Only ASF/AMC files from the CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database have been tested.

References

A blog post describing the package with more examples: http://giorasimchoni.com/2017/08/08/2017-08-08-lambada-the-mocap-package/

The CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database: http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/

Examples

asfFilePath <- system.file("extdata", "lambada.asf", package = "mocap")
asf <- readASF(asfFilePath)
amcFilePath <- system.file("extdata", "lambada.amc", package = "mocap")
amc <- readAMC(amcFilePath, asf)

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