Volume rendering lighting using dot product methodology

Details Volume rendering lighting using dot product methodology Volume rendering lighting using dot product methodology

1997-11-26

2000-10-10

Powell, Mark P.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

345426, G06T 1700

Patent

active

061306711

ABSTRACT:
Volume rendering lighting using dot product methodology is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a computer includes a processor, a computer-readable medium and a computer program. The medium stores first data representing a set of voxel data representing an object, each voxel datum having a gradient that is desirably either positive or negative, and second data representing a light source having a directional vector. The computer program is executed by the processor from the medium, and displays the set of the voxel data, including illuminating each voxel datum using a dot product of the gradient of the voxel datum with the directional vector of the light source.

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