Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1996-10-15
1998-12-29
Buchel, Jr., Rudolph J.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345431, 345432, G06T 1550
Patent
active
058546324
ABSTRACT:
The final viewable color of each pixel to be displayed responsive to specular reflected illumination intensity from a polygon is determined by generating a data signal, setting a specular component of the present pixel illumination intensity for the associated color, as the product of the intensity of a light source illuminating the polygon, a specular coefficient for that polygon, and a shading term proportional to the exponentiation of the rendered Gouraud Shading Intensity (GSI) for each of a plurality of selected primary colors of a sequence of pixels to be displayed as defining that polygon, by S, a shininess exponent (S) specified for that polygon.
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Buchel, Jr. Rudolph J.
Krauss Geoffrey H.
Real 3-D
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