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cloth

Software; CAD

Polygonal shapes that can be tessellated and draped over other objects. These shapes are used in Maya nCloth to simulate real-world cloth.

cloud

Software; CAD

In dynamics, a render type that displays particles as blurred or cloudy metaballs (spheres that blend together to form surfaces). Clouds appear only in software rendered images.

In Maya Fur, the placement of fur into a series of compact masses (clumps). You can control clumping attributes such as the degree to which hairs are pulled in towards a clump’s center, the frequency ...

canvas

Software; CAD

A 2D plane on which colors, patterns, or textures can be painted. A canvas can be used as an independent piece of art, as a background image in a scene, or as a texture applied to a 3D surface.

CgFX Viewer

Software; CAD

A standalone application from nVidia for connecting, viewing and editing shaders. Maya provides a Windows-only plug-in named cgfxShader.mll for editing and viewing CgFX files.

chamfer

Software; CAD

In polygonal modeling, the removal of a vertex to create a chamfered (cut-off) corner.

channel

Software; CAD

1) In animation, an animatable attribute displayed in the Channel Box. See Channel Box. 2) In rendering and imaging, a component of a pixel. Primary channels are typically primary colors, such as ...