Patent ID: 8566714

Claim:
A computer program product for standardizing the appearance of related product accessories installed on a base product presented in a plurality of view-angles including software executable instructions stored in a non-transitory, computer readable medium for performing a method by running a software program on a computer, the method including issuing instructions from the computer software program comprising: loading into a configurator application visualization data for the base product, providing a designer graphics user interface displaying the base product and an accessory image, the accessory image representative of a product accessory compatible with the base product; providing an image transformation tool manually operable by a designer to fit the accessory image to the base product, operations to fit the accessory selected from the group consisting of scaling, skewing, translation and rotation, the operations resulting in a transformation; saving the transformation as a t-matrix profile for each view-angle of the base product; establishing an accessory classification for additional accessories that fit the base product in a substantially similar fashion; associating the t-matrix profiles to the accessory classification; updating the visualization data with the t-matrix profiles assignment and accessory image information; and providing a customer graphic user interface for interchangeably viewing a plurality of accessories fitted to the base product wherein the transformations saved as t-matrix profiles automatically transform the additional accessory images belonging to the same accessory classification previously assigned to the accessory image fitted to the base product by the designer.