Patent ID: 8643654

Claim:
A method for sharing information between computer-generated objects, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems, information specifying a pair of meshes, a portion of a first mesh in the pair having a common topology with a portion of a second mesh in the pair; receiving, at the one or more computer systems, information specifying rigging configured to influence deformation of a set of vertices in the portion of the first mesh in response to being manipulated by a user; determining, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a correspondence between the vertices of the portion of the first mesh and the vertices of the portion of the second mesh; and transferring, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, information specifying the rigging between the pair of meshes using the correspondence such that a copy of the rigging is configured to influence deformation of a corresponding set of vertices in the portion of the second mesh in response to being manipulated by a user.