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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Kenneth Jamieson Hill, Lyon Township, MI (US);
Inventor:
Kenneth Jamieson Hill, Lyon Township, MI (US);
Assignee:
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T011/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer-implemented graphics program that determines the distribution of spines on a curvature comb. The graphics program generates a curvature comb to visualize the smoothness of a curve, wherein the curvature comb is comprised of a plurality of spines drawn perpendicular to the curve. The spines are distributed along the curvature comb according to a spine density function (SDF) that represents a desired density of the spines. A cumulative density function (CDF) is used as a computational tool for distributing spines according the distribution given by the SDF.