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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2003
Armin Bruderlin, Culver City, CA (US);
Jeffrey M. Chan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Robert B. Engle, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gokhan Kisacikoglu, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Brian Steiner, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David S. Tanner, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Armin Bruderlin, Culver City, CA (US);
Jeffrey M. Chan, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Robert B. Engle, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gokhan Kisacikoglu, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Brian Steiner, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David S. Tanner, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culvery City, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and process for digitally representing a plurality of surface-attached geometric objects on a model. The system and process comprises generating a plurality of particles and placing the plurality of particles on a surface of the model. A first plurality of curves are generated and placed at locations on the model. Characteristics are defined for the first plurality of curves. A second plurality of curves is interpolated from the first plurality of curves at locations of the particles. A plurality of surface-attached geometric objects is generated that replaces all of the particles and the second plurality of curves.