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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2006
Galen Gerald Gornowicz, Pasadena, CA (US);
Andrew John Weber, Glendale, CA (US);
Galen Gerald Gornowicz, Pasadena, CA (US);
Andrew John Weber, Glendale, CA (US);
DreamWorks Animation LLC, Glendale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of animating feather elements includes: specifying initial positions for a skin surface and for feather elements; specifying positions for the skin surface at an animated time; determining a feather-ordering sequence for placing the feather elements on the skin surface; determining positions for skirt elements that provide spatial extensions for the skin surface at the animated time; determining positions for feather-proxy elements that provide spatial extensions for the feather elements at the animated time; and determining positions for the feather elements at the animated time by extracting the feather elements from the feather-proxy elements. The feather-proxy elements are determined from the skirt elements according to the feather-ordering sequence, and the feather-proxy elements satisfy a separation criterion for avoiding intersections between the feather-proxy elements.