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7265753 Particle tracing with on-demand meshing  
A method of rendering computer graphics is disclosed comprising the steps of: processing a set of light particles in a scene to be rendered; selecting a view of the scene, where the view comprises...
6920415 Method of trimming a representation of an object surface comprising a mesh of tessellated polygons and related system  
A method of trimming a mesh representation of an object surface comprising a tessellated mesh of polygons. A trim curve is projected onto the mesh representation to determine the trim area....
6731281 Method for two-dimensional pixel representation of objects on a display device  
In a method for two-dimensional pixel representation of an object on a display device, to represent the object surface using polygonal surface elements pixel values are determined for vertices of...
6700580 System and method utilizing multiple pipelines to render graphical data  
A system for rendering graphical data utilizes a plurality of frame buffers, a plurality of graphics pipelines, a compositor, and logic. The plurality of graphics pipelines are configured to...
6683620 Relational modeling of trimmed nurbs surfaces  
A method and apparatus are provided relationally modeling a trimmed NURBS surface. The relational model may be formed of a NURBS surface object, a trimming curve object that depends on the NURBS...
6624811 System, method and article of manufacture for decomposing surfaces using guard curves and reversed stitching  
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for decomposing surfaces using guard curves for rendering purposes during computer graphics processing. Initially, a patch is received....
6522340 Creating real-world objects  
The present invention is a system and method for creating a real-world object as a bitmap image are provided. Initially, the background pixels in the frame buffer are assigned the same color which...
6333747 Image synthesizing system with texture mapping  
An image synthesizing system is provided which can output a high-quality image in real time through the texture mapping without preventing the hardware from being increased in speed and reduced in...
6285375 Algorithm to transform generalized polygons to trapezoids  
General polygons are broken into trapezoids and/or triangles and exported to a graphics adapter for rendering. Intersecting line segments are broken at the point of inter-section. Simple polygons...
6054985 Data processing system and method for simulating compound objects  
A data processing system and method is provided for performing "drag and drop" operations of compound objects using system platforms, such as JAVA, which do not support compound objects or nested...
5920325 Prioritization of background display during animation  
A system and method is provided that causes an animation sequence and underlying background process to be in step such that the motion of the animation is coordinated with the painting of the...
5870101 Image synthesizing system with texture mapping  
An image synthesizing system is provided which can output a high-quality image in real time through the texture mapping without preventing the hardware from being increased in speed and reduced in...
5621867 Image synthesizing system  
An image synthesizing system is provided which can output a high-quality image in real time through the texture mapping without preventing the hardware from being increased in speed and reduced in...
5615322 Image synthesizing system for producing three-dimensional images  
An image synthesizing system capable of synthesizing a high-quality image in real time is provided herein. The image synthesizing system is adapted to process a plurality of overlapping polygons...
5594848 Method and apparatus for efficiently determining line segments within a window using iterative halving  
A method and apparatus is provided for efficiently determining scissored line segments within a window, without the use of long division calculations. Edges are examined to determine whether an...
5561746 Image synthesizing system with surface data perspective transformation  
An image synthesizing system improves perspective transformation of images by giving a far and near sense to the spatial change in the surface data of an object. A texture data storage unit stores...
5555356 System and method for generating a trimmed parametric surface for display on a graphic display device  
A method and system for representing an arbitrary parametric surface having one or more trimming polylines applied thereto. A quadrilateral mesh coextensive with the parametric surface is...
5553208 Image synthesizing system having a field buffer unit that stores texture coordinates  
An image synthesizing system is provided which can increase the speed of its hardware and reduce the scale of the same by using the subsampling/interpolation. A processor unit (80) determines...
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