Autodesk, Inc.

Jeffrey M Kowalski

Ravinder Patnam Krishnaswamy

Brian Philip Mathews

Robert D Covey

Ching-Chi Billy Hsu

Carl Christer Janson

Tanvir B Hassan

Matthew R Arrott

A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable medium provide the ability to create a point cloud indexed file. A grid (of cells that are divided into subcells) is mapped over points in a point cloud dataset. An occupancy value, that indicates whether a subcell contains a point, is computed for each subcell. A surface area contribution factor is computed for each cell and identifies a count of subcells that are occupied divided by a total number of subcells. The surface area contribution factor for each cell and points for each cell are written to the point cloud indexed file.

Uniform point cloud decimation

The present invention discloses an apparatus, method, and article of manufacture for generating graphic images. In accordance with the present invention, an application program receives commands from a computer user via an input device and provides an output command stream to a plurality of renderer programs. The renderer programs selectively modify the output command stream and transmit the output command stream to a graphics peripheral device or to one or more of the other renderer programs.

Immediate mode drawing interface for the construction of graphics

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Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey M Kowalski