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Magic Cage Deformation Tool Plugin For Maya     C++, Maya

Based on the Siggraph '13 paper "*Cages: A Multi‐Level, Multi‐Cage Based System for Mesh Deformation",  this deformation tool plugin for Maya is developed, which performs better than FFD in numerous ways. It takes arbitrary shape and arbitrary number of cages as reference, and able to maintain smoothness along edges throughout deformation. It responses real-time and provides flexibility in organization of cages as hierarchy.

Some highlights of features:
- Arbitrary shape of cage, hence more free control over deformation
- Multiple cages can function together for deformation
- Hierarchical cages can provide more control over deformation
- Smoothness guaranteed in both shape and texture, even along cage edges

*Credits: Suyang Wang (developer), Francisco Gonzalez Garcıa (theory & source code), Binglu Du (developer)

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