Texture roaming via dimension elevation

Details Texture roaming via dimension elevation Texture roaming via dimension elevation

2006-03-14

2006-03-14

Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2676)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

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C345S428000, C345S587000, C345S620000

Reexamination Certificate

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07012614

ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides texture roaming via dimension elevation. A degree elevated texture is used to contain level of detail (LOD) levels (or tiles) of a clip-map across a degree elevated coordinate space. For example, a three-dimensional (3D) texture is used for two-dimensional (2D) clip-mapping, a four-dimensional (4D) texture is used for 3D clip-mapping, and a 2D texture is used for one-dimensional (1D) clip-mapping. Once the levels of a clip-map are placed in an extra dimension coordinate space, the extra dimension texture coordinate value can be computed based on clip-mapping rules.

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