Patent Document ID: 8994736
Application ID: 13608786
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: applying, by one or more computing devices, a deformation to a three-dimensional (3-D) model that is represented as a mesh comprising a plurality of mesh points, said applying the deformation to the 3-D model comprising: generating a curve as a polyline having an orthogonal frame attached at each of a plurality of points of the polyline, one or more of the mesh points of the 3-D model bound to each of the orthogonal frames, the one or more mesh points bound to the orthogonal frames determined according to a shortest path distance technique; displaying the curve at least partially on a displayed representation of the 3-D model, the curve specified to be applied for deforming the 3-D model; deforming the curve based on a selected point on the displayed curve being manipulated; and deforming at least a portion of the 3-D model according to the deformation of the curve.