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To change the position from which the camera views its centre of interest. The scene in the camera’s view appears to rotate about the centre of interest. The angle of a camera’s sight line relative ...

Turbulence field

Software; CAD

In dynamics, a type of Newton field that causes irregularities in the motion of affected objects. These irregularities are also called noise or jitter. Combine turbulence with other fields to mimic ...

Tweaking

Software; CAD

In animation, the activity of moving or setting keys on individual points of an object. Tweaking is useful to avoid unexpected effects caused by deformers. Also known as point tweaking.

Subdivision surface

Software; CAD

A hybrid surface type that provides both the smooth organic forms of NURBS modeling, and the detail and extrusion capabilities of polygonal modeling. A subdivision surface can have different levels ...

Substitute geometry

Software; CAD

In IK (inverse kinematics), the ability to substitute a bound piece of geometry with a different piece of geometry, even while maintaining the same skin weighting. This feature facilitates a ...

Target

Software; CAD

In animation, the skeleton to which joint animation is retargeted from the joints of an original skeleton (source). In other words, the source skeleton is the skeleton from which you want to retarget ...

Template

Software; CAD

1. The action of making an object unselectable. The object is still visible, but changes to a grey colour to indicate that it cannot be selected or changed. Also known as freeze or ghost. 2. In ...