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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2016
Direct manipulation interpolation and ghost wedging for distributed node-based interactive workflows
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Chung-An Lin, Cerritos, CA (US);
Gene Lee, La Canada, CA (US);
Christian Eisenacher, Burbank, CA (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed computation system is leveraged to evaluate many possible results of a rig near the current pose to obtain predicted poses. A user locally runs an animation application instance to manipulate an animated object including a rig and shape. Depending on a user's selection or modification of a rig control of the rig, changes to the rig control are predicted. Based on the predicted changes to the rig control, the distributed computation system evaluates the rig to obtain different predicted poses. The predicted poses are made available to an interpolator that blends the results to obtain an interpolated shape. In implementations, the distributed computation system may be used to evaluate predicted poses for animation ghosting.