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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
May. 11, 2007
Armin Walter Bruderlin, Culver City, CA (US);
Francois Chardavoine, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Clint Chua, Alhambra, CA (US);
Gustav Melich, Playa del Rey, CA (US);
Armin Walter Bruderlin, Culver City, CA (US);
Francois Chardavoine, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Clint Chua, Alhambra, CA (US);
Gustav Melich, Playa del Rey, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to define a surface and an optimization module may be used to determine whether a hair is to be rendered upon the surface. In particular, the optimization module may be used to: determine a size metric for the hair; apply a first density curve to the size metric determined for the hair to generate a density multiplier value; and based upon the density multiplier value, determine whether the hair should be rendered.