Patents Assigned to Sony Corporation and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for the digital creation of fur effects
    Publication number: 20020057278
    Abstract: A system and method to generate digital representations of hair or animal fur on surfaces. In one embodiment the system and method includes methods to automatically place hairs on surfaces, comb the placed hairs, adjust the hairs on surface boundaries to ensure continuity across surface patches, selectively break hairs along fur tracks, and selectively clump hairs to provide wet fur looks. Rendering techniques are applied to the hairs to produce realistic two-dimensional images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: Sony Corporation and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventor: Armin Walter Bruderlin