Patent ID: 8771072

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having an information processing program stored thereon executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus for executing information processing instructions for displaying an object, the object formed of a plurality of nodes and present in a virtual space, on a display device, the information processing program instructions causing the computer to perform operations comprising: determining a position and/or a direction of at least one predetermined first node among the plurality of nodes; calculating a position and/or a direction of at least one predetermined second node among the plurality of nodes, based on a determined position and/or direction of the first node and reference posture information defining a particular predetermined reference posture for the object, said reference posture information specifying a predetermined position and direction for each individual node of the plurality of nodes of the object for the particular predetermined reference posture, the plurality of nodes including the first node and the second node, wherein the position and/or direction of the second node is calculated such that a posture of the object as a whole in the virtual space is close in appearance to that of the particular reference posture; and displaying the object on the display device based on the determined position and/or direction of the first node and a determined position and/or direction of the second node.