Sandy Ressler, Information Access Division, was a key contributor to a Humanoid Animation (H-ANIM) standard, which was recently approved by final ballot by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The official name is "ISO/IEC 19774 Information technology -- Computer graphics and image processing -- Humanoid Animation (H-Anim)." Developed with the Web3D Consortium, the standard allows for the interoperable representation of human figures for animation and human modeling systems. Ressler integrated work from the CAESAR (human anthropometric survey) project with the 3D community to make the standard useful for both engineering design and entertainment applications.

CONTACT: Sandy Ressler (ITL), ext. 3549

(edited by Liz Lennon from Sandy’s draft March 2006 (for April 2006 edition)