Harvard FAS CAMLab 哈佛大学中国艺术实验室— Cave Dance Project
 

Project from http://cavedance.art/about.html 

​CG（Animation）Artist / 3D Visual Artist 

Jam Mo

 

Cave Dance  

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Based upon multi-year interdisciplinary research on the Buddhist culture of dance in Dunhuang, the Cave Dance project harnesses the power of machine learning to bring new insights upon ancient dance forms. Data from static mural drawings and motion capture of professional dancers were used to train a machine-learning model, which generated a human-computer collaborative choreography of animated movement sequences. Through this process, Cave Dance breathes new life into static dance paintings and translates ancient texts; it presents a contemporary reconstruction—and imagination—of these ancient dances.