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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2024
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pourya Shirazian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahdi Azizian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided to model a 3D structure comprising: producing a surface mesh representation of the 3D structure; producing a volume mesh representation of the 3D structure based upon the surface mesh; sorting vertices of the volume mesh into a first sub-list that includes only surface vertices and a second sub-list that includes only internal vertices; applying shading to the surface mesh by accessing only surface vertices in the first sub-list; determining deformation of the volume mesh by accessing both surface vertices in the first sub-list and internal vertices in the second sub-list.