<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>April 25, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>Hello Asmaa and Steve -</div><div><br></div><div>Steve is correct that SignWriting is designed as a daily writing system for all sign languages, and was never really developed for avatar work, however, just for your information, there are projects around the world that are using SignWriting for avatar work. Here are some of those projects:</div><div><br></div><div>In South Africa:</div><div><br></div><div>Test Avatar using SignWriting<br><div class="im"><a href="http://www.cs.uwc.ac.za/~kmoemedi/index.php?phaseno=1&pageno=1" target="_blank">http://www.cs.uwc.ac.za/~kmoemedi/index.php?phaseno=1&pageno=1</a></div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">Tunisia</div><div class="im"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/tunisia/tunisia01.html">http://www.signwriting.org/tunisia/tunisia01.html</a></div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">Greece (old project)</div><div class="im"><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/lisbon/lisbon04.html">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/lisbon/lisbon04.html</a></div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">I can put you in touch with the work done in South Africa and Tunisia if you wish -</div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">But meanwhile, Steve is right, that using the SiGML program would serve you the quickest -</div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">Val ;-)</div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im">-------</div><div class="im"><br></div><div class="im"><br></div><div><div>On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Stephen E Slevinski Jr <<a href="mailto:slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET">slevin@SIGNPUDDLE.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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On 4/25/13 1:14 PM, Asmaa Shaban wrote:<br>
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<div>So, if i want to represent the output as 3d avatar , we
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SWML is not meant for avatar work. SignWriting is primarily
concerned with reading and writing. Integrating SignWriting with
avatars is not ready at this time. It would make for a great
project.<br>
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For a more mature avatar solution, you may want to investigate
something called "Signing Gesture Markup Language" (SiGML) that
works with HamNoSys rather than SignWriting.<br>
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