Patent ID: 8890889
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating a pose of an object in an interactive application executing on a processor, the method comprising: receiving a posing template that defines a posing path to collide with a graphics object, wherein the posing path defined by the posing template is associated with a graphics tool usable for specifying conformation information for the graphics object, and wherein the posing template is not included in a set of rendered images generated from the graphics object; receiving the graphics object to be posed, wherein the graphics object includes geometry defining one or more sub-objects connected by a chain of one or more articulated joints; receiving, by operation of the application executing on the processor, a user input that collides the graphics object with at least a portion of the posing path defined by the posing template; and in response to the collision between the graphics object and the portion of the posing path, positioning one or more of the articulated joints such that a contour of the chain conforms to the collided portion of the posing path.