TETRAHEDRAL VOLUMES FROM SEGMENTED BOUNDING BOXES OF A SUBDIVISION

Patent №

US 9,734,616

Granted

2017-08-15

Filed 2013

Owner

PIXAR

Lab

AI components

3

ml · vision · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14052383

In various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for rapidly generating tetrahedral volumes using centerlines in character animation. The volumes are generated to closely approximate bounding volumes that provide rapid collision detection while at the same time conforming to the original mesh surface. Therefore, more accurate and higher quality collisions are achieved using the original surface in real-time and without using a proxy/simulation.

Machine learningVisionEvolutionary computationG06T 13/40G06T 17/20G06T 19/20G06T 2210/12G06T 2219/2021

AI classification

Vision1.00
Evolutionary computation0.99
Machine learning0.50
Knowledge representation0.16
Natural language0.01
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

PIXAR

assignment · 313910859

Assignors

COMET, MICHAEL, KRISHNA, VENKATESWARAN, VAN GELDER, DIRK

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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