Patent ID: 8217958

Claim:
A method for modifying visibility of objects in computer-generated scenes, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems, information indicative of an intersection between a first object of a computer-generate scene and a second object of the computer-generated scene; identifying, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, at least one a color property associated with of the first object in data representing the first object, the at least one color property of the first object assigned a first value in the data representing the first object and being an attribute of the first object influencing color of the first object when positioned in the computer generated-scene and being associated with a first value; determining, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a second value to replace usage of the first value assigned to the at least one color property associated with of the first object in an operation on the first object based on an amount of interpenetration between the first object and the second object; and generating, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, information configured to modify visibility of the first object in the computer generated scene in the operation on the first object based on the second value for the at least one color property associated with the first object.