Morphological attractor for creating custom ancestors in inheritance-based character generation

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for creating and customizing graphical models. In one embodiment, a design application receives a morphological attractor created from the same mesh as one or more inheritance-based character generation ancestor models. Upon receiving the morphological attractor, the design application may use the attractor to align and transform the ancestor models to create a new set of ancestor models which resemble the attractor. The new set of ancestor models is referred to herein as being in the “genetic space” of the attractor. A user may then create child character models in this same genetic space by, globally or locally, blending two or more of the new ancestor models.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for creating custom three-dimensional (3D) models, comprising:
receiving a morphological attractor comprising a 3D model having features not aligned with corresponding features of a set of predefined ancestor 3D models; aligning the features of the set of predefined ancestor models to the corresponding features of the morphological attractor by applying feature proportions of the morphological attractor to each of the predefined ancestor models to create a second set of ancestor models; and blending at least two of the ancestor models in the second set of ancestor models according to user-specified blending settings to create a child 3D model.