Autodesk, Inc.

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Andre Gauthier

John Schrag

Jérôme Maillot

Jerome Maillot

Pierre-Felix Breton

Max Windisch

Daniel Levesque

Alexis Smirnov

A method for generating a user interface within a graphics application for a set of materials, such that each material includes a material definition and is capable of being applied to a geometry in a graphics scene when performing a rendering operation. A GUI generation engine obtains configuration information associated with an environment for a computer system and determines that a first set of materials is associated with the configuration information. The GUI generation selects the first set of materials to be displayed in a graphical user interface, and the graphical user interface is displaying to an end-user. Advantageously, embodiments of the invention provide for a technique for exposing only those materials, user interface objects, editable material parameters, user interface elements, vocabulary, rendering engines, and/or rendering engine implementations that are relevant to the user of a particular rendering application.

Predictive material editor

Accessing a schema-free database includes constructing a model indicating a structure for the data to be used by applications accessing the data, validating the model based on the structure and on the data stored in the schema-free database, providing an API based on the structure, and accessing the database using the API. The model may be constructed by extracting data structure information from a program. The program may be written in the Ruby programming language or the Python programming language. The API may be a RESTful API.

Accessing schema-free databases

Embodiments of the invention provide a renderer-agnostic method for representing materials independently from an underlying rendering engine. Advantageously, materials libraries may be extended with new materials for rendering with an existing rendering engine and implementation. Also, new rendering engines and implementations may be added for existing materials. Thus, at run-time, rather than limiting the rendering to being performed on a pre-determined rendering engine, the rendering application may efficiently and conveniently manage rendering a graphics scene on a plurality of rendering engines or implementations.

Method for creating graphical materials for universal rendering framework

Embodiments of the invention provide system and methods for organizing, browsing and editing materials stored in a computer system. The system is configured to dynamically create an organizational structure for the materials according to classification groups specified by the creator of each stored material. Additionally, the system is configured to expose certain editable material parameters of a selected material to the end-user and make available specific GUI elements to the end-user so that the end-user can edit the selected material, thereby changing the appearance of the material.

Data-driven interface for managing materials

Embodiments of the invention provide a method for extending a graphics rendering framework. A rendering application locates a first file that includes a first implementation involving a first graphics material and compares data associated with the first file to data associated with a second file that includes a second implementation involving a second graphics material. The rendering application compares data associated with the first and second files, determines that the first graphics material matches the second graphics material, and determines that the first implementation is different from the second implementation. The data associated with the first file and the data associated with the second file are then combined into a data structure. Advantageously, new graphics materials, and implementations for existing graphics materials, may be created without access to the source code of the original implementation of the graphics materials and may be installed at a later time without re-shipping the entire library of graphics materials and implementations.

File format extensibility for universal rendering framework

Frontend for universal rendering framework

Animation editing apparatus for editing animation data, comprising data storage means, processing means, visual display means and a manually responsive input device configured to allow a user to indicate a selected point on the visual display means. The visual display means displays an image representing a simulated three-dimensional world-space including a plurality of simulated objects, and the manually responsive input device provides an input signal indicating a location within the image corresponding to one of the simulated objects. In response to receiving the input signal, the processing means identifies the selected simulated object, and retrieves data from the data storage means of one or more related items related to the selected simulated object within a defined degree of relationship. The visual display means displays labels identifying the selected simulated object and the related items only.

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St-Jacques-Le-Mineur, Canada

Andre Gauthier