Method and apparatus for viewing large ensembles of three-dimens

Details Method and apparatus for viewing large ensembles of three-dimens Method and apparatus for viewing large ensembles of three-dimens

1995-12-29

1998-09-29

Fetting, Anton

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

G06T 1540

Patent

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058151583

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for visually rendering a three dimensional structure as an image on a two dimensional display without specialized hardware. The invention renders each object of the structure one at a time on the display in descending order according to a measured distance, i.e., rear to front of the structure, of the object from a predetermined view point. As each object is rendered, depth relationships between the objects are conveyed to users. To reduce the number of computations required for rendering the objects, the present method and apparatus use a reference point to determine the measured distance from the predetermined view point to each object.

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