Google Inc.

Hewlett-packard Company

Kenneth William Shrum

Don W Dyer

Noel D Scott

Scott Matthew Johnston

Michael Sorvillo

Theodore Yining Chen

A method includes transmitting, from a storage system to a user system, information that, when processed by the user system, causes the user system to display a current view representing the one or more items. The method also includes selecting, at the storage system in response to a first user input signal that identifies at least one item from one or more items that are stored at the storage system, a removal operation based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the one or more predetermined criteria include a view type of the current view. The method also includes performing, at the storage system, the removal operation with respect to the at least one item.

Methods of managing items in a shared workspace

A high precision, memory efficient method for the compression of surface normals and the inverse method for the decompression of those compressed surface normals back into surface normals. The normals are first scaled to unit length in Cartesian coordinates. Then, each of the smallest two vector components of the unit length normal is stored along with an indicator of which of the three vector components is not stored plus the algebraic sign of that vector component. Decompression of the surface normal requires first converting the two stored vector components into floating-point values and then using the equation 1&equals;x &plus;y &plus;z in order to obtain the non-stored vector component of the unit length normal.

Surface normal compression/decompression storing two vector components

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

Kenneth William Shrum