Platinum Technology Ip, Inc.

Paul S Strauss

Richard J Carey

Robert David Story

David Stanley Immel

Three-dimensional scenes or movies are generated by a user of a computer system by interactively selecting a stage from among several available 3D stages, each of which has at least one predetermined feature such as a pedestal, lighting characteristics, a camera path or the like. The user may import predefined 3D objects into the selected stage and move and resize the objects as desired to compose a scene. Once composed, the scene is rendered to generate an image or a series of successive scenes is rendered to generate an animated movie.

Interactive authoring of 3D scenes and movies

A system, method and computer program product for optimizing a scene graph for optimizing rendering performance. The nodes of an original scene graph are rearranged to minimize a number of state changes while rendering the scene graph. The shapes of the original scene graph are further broken into a plurality of triangular strip sets, which lend to a better rendering performance. The system, method and computer program product also performs transformations on an object in the scene graph and sends the transformed object to a rendering library, which minimizes an amount of data transferred to the rendering library.

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Sharon, MA, United States of America

Paul S Strauss