Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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Alexander Charles Cullum

Barry John Ptak

David Mondelore

Mark Aaron Stanley

Jonathan Peter Creighton

Lee Jason Schuneman

Matthew Elwyn Oliver Jones

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can be activated by selecting a graphical object or objects. When multiple objects are selected, the manipulations can occur as a group. In one aspect, the manipulations occur around the centroid of the 3-D graphical object, or groups of objects. The manipulations can include rotation, size adjustment, and positional adjustment within the virtual drawing space. The control interface comprises a visible mesh that helps the user position the object in space relative to other objects.

Interface for positioning an object in three-dimensional graphical space

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can automatically group objects together for common manipulation. Example manipulations include position and orientation adjustments.

Automatically grouping objects in three-dimensional graphical space

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can be activated by selecting a graphical object or objects. When multiple objects are selected, the manipulations can occur as a group. In one aspect, the manipulations occur around the centroid of the 3-D graphical object, or groups of objects. The manipulations can include rotation, size adjustment, and positional adjustment within the virtual drawing space. The control interface comprises controls that rotate the object around an x-axis, an y-axis, or an z-axis.

Control interface for a three-dimensional graphical object

Aspects of the technology described herein provide for projecting a two-dimensional (2D) image onto a surface of a three-dimensional (3D) graphical object within a virtual 3D drawing space. In response to a user input indicating a command to stamp the 2D image onto the 3D graphical object, the 2D image is projected, in 3D space, onto the surface of the 3D graphical object, creating the appearance that the 2D image wraps around the 3D graphical object in 3D space. In one aspect, as the 3D graphical object is rotated, translated, stretched, or otherwise manipulated, the 2D image remains fixed to the surface of the 3D graphical object and is also rotated, translated, stretched, or otherwise manipulated.

Projecting a two-dimensional image onto a three-dimensional graphical object

Aspects of the technology described herein provide a control interface for manipulating a 3-D graphical object within a virtual drawing space. The control can automatically group objects together for common manipulation. The control can take the form of a scaled representation of a group of objects located outside of the primary drawing space. Moving the representation then moves the objects.

Positioning objects in three-dimensional graphical space

Aspects of the technology described herein provide for sampling the material properties of a source object within a virtual 3D drawing space, and then applying those properties to a target object within the drawing space. The material properties may include not only color, but also other physical properties like texture and sheen. For example, the way an object behaves in different lighting conditions may constitute a material property. According to aspects of the technology described herein, the manner in which an object behaves in lighting conditions, the shininess of the object, and the texture of the object may all be selected, sampled, and transferred to other target surfaces, such as a canvas or the surfaces of other objects, in the virtual 3D drawing space.

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