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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2008
David Baraff, Oakland, CA (US);
Christine Waggoner, Berkeley, CA (US);
David Baraff, Oakland, CA (US);
Christine Waggoner, Berkeley, CA (US);
Pixar, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
In various embodiments, the motion of simulated or secondary objects, such as the motion of cloth, of computer imagery and computer generated animations may be viewed as a time-varying signal. Accordingly, simulation results can be 'filtered' to repair, reduce, or eliminate 'damage' to the motion signal of regions of the simulated object where “jumps,” “wigglies,” “sags,” “blemishes,” or high frequency perturbations may occur during simulation. Simulation repair may be performed using a coordinate frame from one or more regions of the simulated object or of another reference object whose motion is not “damaged” like the motion of the regions to be repaired. The coordinate frame can be non-linear, temporally varying, or the like, and can provide a suitable reference to repair simulation results in an efficient and time-optimized manner with quality results.