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System for particle editing

US8994737B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Inventors

Stuart Harl Ferguson · Sunnyvale, US
Gregory Duquesne · Belmont, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 30, 2012
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 14, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2210/56
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer animation editing system having a sampler to sample a particle animation, a particle cache and polygon mesh editing tools configured to edit a particle simulation by converting a particle cache of the simulation into a polygon mesh, editing the polygon mesh and then converting the edited polygon mesh back into an edited particle cache.

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