Bicubic surface real-time tesselation unit

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2007-07-17

2007-07-17

Chauhan, Ulka (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

C345S419000, C345S420000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10732398

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a graphics processing unit for rendering objects from a software application executing on a processing unit in which the objects to be rendered are transmitted to the graphics processing unit over a bus as control points of bicubic surfaces. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the graphics processing unit includes a transform unit, a lighting unit, a renderer unit, and a tessellate unit for tessellating both rational and non-rational object surfaces in real-time.

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