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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 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 Pictures Entertainment Inc, Culver City, CA (US);
Abstract
A lighting module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to produce lighting effects in a lighting phase for a shot and an optimization module may be used to: determine if a cache hair state file including hair parameters exists; and determine if the cache hair state file includes matching hair parameters to be used in the shot, and if so, the hair parameter values from the cache hair state file are used in the lighting phase.