Patent 8654121 was granted and assigned to Pixar on February, 2014 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An interactive multi-mesh modeling system may allow users to employ a variety of modeling techniques to interactively create one or more objects for a variety of different tasks or tools. The interactive multi-mesh modeling system may employ a variety of techniques for taking a source computer-generated representation of an object and providing the automatic creation, management, and maintenance of instances or versions of the source, and any information defined thereon or associated therewith, that are suitable for several different tasks. The interactive multi-mesh modeling system may further employ a variety of techniques for retesselating meshes based on determining new vertices and edges immediately in response to traversing an input mesh space.