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Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of color data
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Method for borderless mapping of texture images
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Transfer of rigs with temporal coherence
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Stochastic level of detail in computer animation
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Water particle manipulation
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Methods and apparatus for auto-scaling properties of simulated objects
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Interactive depth of field using simulated heat diffusion
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Video to film flat panel digital recorder and method
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Statistical dynamic modeling method and apparatus
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Volumetric hair simulation
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Volumetric hair rendering
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Display calibration icon for a portion of a display device
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Hair rendering method and apparatus
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US7184043B2Feb 27, 2007
Color compensated translucent object rendering methods and apparatus
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Three-dimensional paint projection weighting of diffuse and scattered illumination methods and apparatus
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Method and apparatus for manipulating color values in a computer graphics system
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Multiple cylinder deflection system
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Method and apparatus for creating, manipulating and displaying images
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Global intersection analysis for determining intersections of objects in computer animation
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Global intersection analysis for determining intesections of objects in computer animation
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Method of creating and evaluating bandlimited noise for computer graphics
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Method and apparatus for rendering shadows
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Method and apparatus for rendering shadows
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Customizing widget draw styles
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Integrated object bend, squash and stretch method and apparatus
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Representing scene description in databases
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Rendering of multiple volumes
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Dynamic model generation methods and apparatus
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Key frame animation with path-based motion
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Recursive filters on GPUs
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Interactive spacetime constraints: wiggly splines
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Adaptive sampling in Monte Carlo renderings using error-predicting neural networks
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