General Mills, Inc.

Sheri M Schellhaass

Bernhard H Van Lengerich

Philip K Zietlow

Barrie R Froseth

Lisa R Schroeder

Paul Muller

Mike E Geddis

Achilles Dimitri Speliotopoulos

Raymond Bowers

Kimberly A Nelson

Jeffrey D Thoresen Severts

Katy P Dickson

David E Williams

Heidi A Emanuel

Nita M Bentley

Myer Joy

Ayron B Glynn

A system and method for selecting, ordering and distributing customized food products is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is a computer-implemented method comprising viewing a list of additives for creating a customized food product, selecting one or more additives from the list of additives to create the customized food product, and transmitting a request to purchase the customized food product, which is then distributed to the consumer. By communicating with the manufacturer as to personal needs and desires pertaining to health, activity level, organoleptic preferences and so forth, the consumer can now develop and order a customized food product to suit his or her particular tastes, using a real-time interactive communication link.

Customized food selection, ordering and distribution system and method

A set of tools provides the ability to generate computer-based representations of three-dimensional pieces and produce a representation of a combination of such pieces in a container such as a bowl. Tools such as the puff tool and flake tool change two-dimensional curves into three-dimensional pieces. Further tools are provided to bend, twist and shear three-dimensional pieces. A coating tool is used to create and modify a variety of coatings that are applied on top of cereal pieces to create frost, glaze and particulates. A container tool allows placement of pieces into a bowl. Pieces are randomized prior to dropping them into the bowl. Further tools continue to drop each piece and rotate them if necessary to avoid overlap. A computer rendered image is photorealistic but contains subtle differences that can be discerned upon close inspection.

Image producing system for three-dimensional pieces

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Plymouth, MN, United States of America

Sheri M Schellhaass