Nah, Joe Alter already holds this...
Am 26.08.2013 16:18, schrieb Alan Fregtman:
I'm going to file a patent for patenting... That'll show /them/!! :p
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau
<luceri...@gmail.com <mailto:luceri...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Don't worry, most of these patents and there children will have
expired by the year 2025. only about twelve years to go!
Le 2013-08-26 05:47, "Stefan Kubicek" <s...@tidbit-images.com
<mailto:s...@tidbit-images.com>> a écrit :
Thx Alan, I knew about the render region, and I'm not
surprised of the toon and quick stretch ones either.
What I really wonder is: how could any developer these days
write commercial software and hope not to infringe any patents
by accident? It's a total minefield, let alone financially
prohibitive due to cost of patent research. Heck, I hear even
the progress bar is, or was until recently, patented! It's
coming to a point where it's getting impossible for small
companies and individuals to develop anything commercially.
And that's not a problem in a land far far away. It already
affects my daily work, as illustrated by the lack of decent
hair modeling solutions for Soft other than that Shave version
from stone age. Peregin's Yeti cannot be sold in America due
to legal dispute with Joe Alter, and I believe that other
"hair mesh modeling" tech is also Patented by Cem Yuksel (Hair
Farm), and I doubt he has plans to port it to Softimage himself.
Patents are to protect those who take risks and invest in
research and development, I understand that, but I feel it's
getting to a point where it does more harm than good. They
simply remain effective for too long, anything longer than 5
years is a lifetime in software development.
All one can do is either not write software or just don't give
a fuck, close his eyes and push forward in hope that nobody
sues his ass off. Did I miss anything?
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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
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