US 9,317,967 B1 · Deformation of surface objects

Abstract

Systems and methods for deformation of surface objects are disclosed. A method may include receiving an initial pose of a model comprising an underlying object and a plurality of surface objects, and a deformation of the model to a second pose. A measurement of the surface objects in the second pose can be used to determine inversely distorted surface objects, such that the lengths of the edges in the inversely distorted surface object are adjusted to counteract the distortion. Thus, when the inversely distorted surface objects are deformed to the second pose, they may appear less distorted than when the original surface objects are deformed to the second pose. Furthermore, a user may direct the level of inverse distortion, so that the surface objects, when inversely distorted and deformed to the second pose, may appear entirely rigid, entirely flexible, or some combination thereof.

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Dependent claims

A method of generating a second pose of a model from an initial pose of the model, the method comprising:

receiving the initial pose of the model, the model comprising an underlying object and a surface object;
displaying the model in the initial pose;
receiving input specifying a deformation of the model from the initial pose to the second pose of the model;
measuring a distortion of the surface object in the second pose relative to the initial pose;
generating, by a computer system, an inversely distorted surface object in the initial pose of the model using the measured distortion;
and
generating a corrected surface object in the second pose by applying the deformation of the model to the inversely distorted surface object, and
displaying the model in the second pose.

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