Method and apparatus for projective texture mapping rendered fro

Details Method and apparatus for projective texture mapping rendered fro Method and apparatus for projective texture mapping rendered fro

1996-01-23

1998-09-08

Fetting, Anton W.

395130, G06T 1140

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058057820

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for generating interactive computer graphics images using projective texture mapping. The projective texture mapping of the present invention involves the mapping of a texture map onto a scene being rendered from the perspective of an arbitrarily positioned and oriented projection light source. The visual effect is as if the texture map were a slide being displayed onto the objects comprising the scene. During this process, homogeneous texture map coordinates are generated for corresponding geometric primitive vertex points. The vertex points of the geometric primitive are defined in terms of a world coordinate system. The homogeneous texture map coordinates of the vertex points are generated using transformation matrices of world coordinates to screen/clip coordinates and world coordinates to light source/texture map coordinates. Texture map coordinates for the remainder of the points of the geometric primitives are derived through interpolation of the vertex homogeneous texture coordinates. Texture map coordinates are generated during a span iteration process by dividing the two spatial homogeneous coordinates by the depth homogeneous coordinate.

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