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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Joseph Frank Floyd, University Place, WA (US);
Patrick James Eames, Newcastle, WA (US);
Brent Louis Hadley, Kent, WA (US);
Robert James Martin, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Shepherd, Issaquah, WA (US);
Ivan Rumsey, Tacoma, WA (US);
Jeremy David Scott, Lynnwood, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for rendering a scene including a digital three-dimensional (3D) model of a structure. The method includes traversing a scene graph composed of a hierarchical group of nodes representing respective 3D objects of the digital 3D model, and selecting nodes of the hierarchical group of nodes. The method includes adding a plurality of objects represented by the selected nodes to a render queue, performing a multiple-pass rendering of the plurality of 3D objects from the render queue. This includes in a pass of a plurality of passes, rendering a threshold portion but not all of the plurality of 3D objects to a framebuffer for output to a display device, with at least one of the plurality of 3D objects being left in the render queue after rendering the threshold portion. The method may also include a mesh simplification and/or z-occlusion.