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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
May. 11, 2007
Applicants:
Armin Walter Bruderlin, Culver City, CA (US);
Francois Chardavoine, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Clint Chun, Alhambra, CA (US);
Gustav Melich, Playa del Rey, CA (US);
Inventors:
Armin Walter Bruderlin, Culver City, CA (US);
Francois Chardavoine, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Clint Chun, Alhambra, CA (US);
Gustav Melich, Playa del Rey, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 15/30 (2011.01); G06T 13/20 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/001 (2013.01); G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 15/30 (2013.01); G06T 13/20 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 19/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A surface definition module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to generate a shape defining a surface and an associated volume. A control hair module may be used to fill the volume with control hairs and an interpolation module may be used to interpolate final hair strands from the control hairs.