Method and system for texture mapping images with anisotropic fi

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Graph generating

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A method for texture mapping an image includes passing an interpolating filter along a line of anisotropy in a texture map and computing a weighted sum of the outputs of the interpolating filter to compute pixel intensity values. The weighting of these output values can be computed using a one dimensional digital filter. The line of anisotropy is derived from the inverse transform, which describes the mapping of a point on the surface of a geometric primitive to a point in the texture map. A system supporting anisotropic filtering includes texture memory, a set-up processor, and a texture filter engine. The set-up processor parses a command stream and retrieves texture data into the texture memory. The texture filter engine determines the line of anisotropy for a pixel and computes a weighted sum of interpolated values sampled along the line of anisotropy.

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