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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Jean Pierre Duplessis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Monty Hammontree, Duvall, WA (US);
Xiaoji Chen, Seattle, WA (US);
Emmanuel Athans, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A smart object represents a 3D graphics object whose control points are disclosed to a user. The control points are displayed for a user to use in performing simple and complex transformations on the 3D graphics object. The control points are positioned in areas where transformations are more likely to be made by a user. A transformation may be an action along one or more axes of the object, such as, rotation, scaling, and translation. The user may utilize the control points to perform a series of transformations that create a particular 3D graphics object without requiring expertise in the 3D graphics modeling application.