Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation

John C Hart

Terrence J Coleman

Stephen A Tibbitts

A procedural solid texturing system which uses a parameterized function capable of reproducing the most common procedural solid textures, specifically wood, marble, clouds and fire ( ). This model is simple enough to be implemented in hardware, and can be realized in VLSI with as little as 100,000 gates. The invention also includes a method for antialiasing the parameterized procedural textures ( ). The antialiasing includes an expression for the necessary box filter width, a technique for efficiently box filtering the procedural texture by either MIP mapping the color table or using a summed area color table ( ).

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Pullman, WA, United States of America

John C Hart