As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation

Everyone could be an animator in the future. Just touch on the screen and the image will follow your finger movement. ;)

As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation is a system that lets a user move and deform a 2D shape without manually establishing a skeleton or freeform deformation domain beforehand.

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The user chooses several points inside the shape as handles and moves each handle to a desired position. The system then moves, rotates, and deforms the overall shape to match the given handle positions while minimizing distortion.

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