Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Animation
Patent
1996-05-24
2000-02-15
Feild, Joseph H.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Animation
345473, G06F 1750
Patent
active
060258527
ABSTRACT:
Manipulation of a graphic structure having a root, a joint and an end effector to a configuration positioning the structure's end effector at a goal position is aided by determining characteristic configurations for the structure having different distances between the root and the end effector. The characteristic configurations form the basis of a transition function mapping goal distances between the root and goal positions to intermediate configurations, with the intermediate configurations having end effector distances (between the root and end effector) equal to the corresponding goal distances. The intermediate configuration may be reoriented to a final configuration positioning the end effector at the goal position.
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