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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1985
Toru Sakaibara, Kokubunji, JP;
Shigeo Tsujioka, Higashiyamato, JP;
Toshinori Kajiura, Kawasaki, JP;
Toshihisa Aoshima, Tokyo, JP;
Motonobu Tonomura, Kokubunji, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for shading a polyhedron at high speed is disclosed which includes the combination of a polygon-scan line conversion processor and an inner product interpolation processor for obtaining a pair of inner products of vectors indicative of a relation among the direction of a normal, the direction of a light source and the direction of a view point each viewed at a point within a polygon having a plurality of vertices, on the basis of the position of said point in the polygon and the direction of a normal at each of the vertices, a table searched on the basis of the inner products of vectors and holding a series of brightness data which have previously been calculated for a series of values of each of the inner products of vectors, a buffer for storing the result of table search for the above table, and a D/A conversion circuit for converting the result of table search into a signal which is used as a brightness control signal in a display device.