Softimage has a bunch of patents actually.
Render region: http://www.google.com/patents ?id=1k8EAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=avid%20technology%20render&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false XSI's QuickStretch deformer: http://www.google.com/patents ?id=NxcgAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=softimage&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false There's a few more, including one for toon shading: https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=inassignee:%22Softimage%22 Oh, and Avid appears to have a patent on editing f-curves in 2D space: https://www.google.com/patents/WO2000063847A1?cl=en&dq=avid+softimage&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a4cTUrOxC46g4AP7p4HYCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com>wrote: > (http://patent.ipexl.com/**inventor/Michael_C_Sheasby_1.**html<http://patent.ipexl.com/inventor/Michael_C_Sheasby_1.html> >> ) >> > > What? The XSI Property Editor is actually patented? > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Christoph Muetze <c...@glarestudios.de> >> wrote: >> >>> ...He didn't just do the skin but also the functional design of the user >>> interface, right? I was always under the impression that he was the >>> designer >>> behind the UI. Am i wrong about this? >>> >>> I always have a hard time explaining people that i do interface design - >>> and >>> that sometimes includes (but is entirely not about) button painting ;) I >>> couldn't care less about the (admittedly beautiful) skin of Softimage - >>> but >>> the UI... oh boy, that's (for the largest part) a piece of true art. >>> >> >> No, he only did the look and skin of the UI. In an interview on >> xsibase, it was implied he did "ui design" but this is wrong, it was >> only graphic design. >> >> For the functional design, we had at many people in the early days who >> designed that. >> >> They were called Program Managers, which is how that job was called >> at Microsoft in the 1990s, but in this decade we'd call them >> interaction designers. For example, one person from Softimage|DS >> called Michael Sheasby >> (http://patent.ipexl.com/**inventor/Michael_C_Sheasby_1.**html<http://patent.ipexl.com/inventor/Michael_C_Sheasby_1.html>) >> is >> responsible for all the "modeless inspector" design, i.e. everything >> about how the PPGs work, without which XSI wouldn't feel like XSI. >> There were different people for each areas. >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------**--------------- > Stefan Kubicek ste...@keyvis.at > ------------------------------**--------------- > keyvis digital imagery > Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 > A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien > Phone: +43 (0) 699 12614231 > www.keyvis.at > -- This email and its attachments are -- > -- confidential and for the recipient only -- > >
