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In IK (inverse kinematics), a method for posing and animating joints with proportional rotations across all joints. Useful when posing and animating limbs that have numerous joints (for example, insect legs).
Industry:Software
In Maya Fur, the effect of fur shading itself. For example, with self-shaded thick fur the tips of the fur will look light and the roots look dark.
Industry:Software
In modeling, the action of sewing points or edges together on NURBS surfaces. Stitching is useful to keep surface edges together while they are being deformed, or for patching NURBS surfaces together to create surface continuity.
Industry:Software
In polygonal modeling, a collection of faces that are connected in a single piece. For example, a primitive plane.
Industry:Software
In polygonal modeling, a modification of the surface topology by smoothing out vertices and their connected edges. Also known as meshsmooth.
Industry:Software
In polygonal modeling, adjacent polygons that share vertices where they meet. These vertices continue to be shared if the polygons are transformed or edited.
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In rendering, a material in the form of a colour map that is applied to surfaces after they are rendered. Shading maps are useful for creating non-photorealistic effects (for example, cartoon shading), or to highlight threshold values in a rendered image.
Industry:Software
In rendering, the intensity of the shiny attribute of a surface. For example, a wet fish has a shinier surface than a dry leaf.
In animations, surfaces reflect light in different ways depending on their shininess. The Blinn material is preferable for shiny surfaces in animations. Highlights on other specular materials, like Phong and PhongE, may flicker when animated.
Industry:Software
In rendering, the projection of a texture onto some surface, from an imaginary sphere that surrounds the surface.
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