Rigging (disambiguation)

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Rigging refers to:

• Masts and lines on ships and other sailing vessels, see rigging.
• Oars, Oarlocks, Outriggers, and other paraphernalia on a rowing boat, see Glossary of rowing terms.
• Temporary structures such as stages built at rock concerts, gatherings, theatre productions, and other events where temporary structures are made from hollow structural steel for use in event production.
• Setting up Aerial Rigging for Circus aerial acts (trapeze, Spanish web, etc)
• Securing heavy machinery and other loads, especially for transport.
• Field Rigging - when crane operators, riggers and rigging superintendents design and execute the heavy transportation and heavy lifting on a construction project.
• Hanging of stage lighting, and related materials, e.g. rigging of theatrical productions which is done by a person known as a rigger a gaffer or a grip.
• Vote rigging is an electoral fraud.
• Rigging in contests is when the results are maliciously changed because of bias.
• Rigging in Computer Graphics identifies the set of activities implied to set up complex controls over a three dimensional object (usually characters). The idea is similar to creating cords and constraints to control a puppet. (See also Inverse kinematics)