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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
May. 04, 2020
Applicant:
Suntracker Technologies Ltd., Victoria, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06F 17/11 (2006.01); G06F 30/27 (2020.01); G06F 111/18 (2020.01); G06T 15/55 (2011.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06F 30/27 (2020.01); G06T 3/4046 (2013.01); G06T 15/55 (2013.01); G06F 17/11 (2013.01); G06F 2111/18 (2020.01); G06T 2210/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to the importance-directed geometric simplification of complex mesh-based representations of objects in virtual environments for radiosity-based global illumination simulations. By means of simplification, the time needed to solve the radiosity equation and so generate an accurate physically-based simulation can be markedly reduced. Further, geometric simplification is performed during the global illumination simulation process rather than as a preprocess step.