Patent ID: 8228335

Claim:
A method of visualizing animation in a computer graphics scene, the method comprising: receiving animation data for a computer graphics scene, wherein the animation data includes at least a first computer graphics variable defined with respect to an input variable, wherein the input variable is defined over a range of input variable values and wherein the first computer graphics variable includes authored values defined for at least a first subset of the range of input variable values, such that each of the authored values is associated with one of the input variable values within the first subset of the range of input variable values; generating rendered images for each of the first subset of the range of input variable values, wherein each rendered image includes an active bidirectional association with one of the authored values of the first computer graphics variable and with an input variable interval within the range of input variable values; and generating a presentation including the rendered images and a representation of the input variable intervals; wherein the animation data comprises a second computer graphics variable defined with respect to the input variable and including second authored values for a second subset of the range of input variable values different from the first subset of the range of input variable values; and wherein each rendered image includes at least a portion of the computer graphics scene poses according to the associated authored value of the first computer graphics variable and a value of the second computer graphics variable at the associated one of the first subset of the range of input variable values.