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Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Fay, Redmond, WA (US);

Mark Finch, Redmond, WA (US);

Stephen Coy, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06F 17/3028 (2013.01); G06F 17/30312 (2013.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G06T 19/003 (2013.01); G06T 2210/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, devices, and computer-readable media that allow real-time rendering while navigating virtually about or through a digital 3-D volumetric model. Examples provide techniques to facilitate real-time rendering while navigating through and around the 3-D volumetric model that can have many thousands of particles, where the particles can have emissive, occlusive, and translucent properties. Such complex particles of the 3-D volumetric model are presorted along predefined viewing directions in order to enable real-time rendering from when a navigation control has been entered. Presorting of data may be performed at a processing device(s) located across a public or private network from a user's device on which the real-time rendering is performed.


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