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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1995
Marie-Christine Cacas, Nanterre, FR;
Institut Francais du Petrole, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;
Abstract
The invention is a method of representing a configuration of a network of curves or lineaments of objects in a zone of an environment or of a field of vector physical quantities in the zone, by interpolation from known data relative to a position and an orientation of the objects or to values of the quantities, in a plurality of points or locations of the environment, in which a locating pattern of meshes is superimposed on the zone being studied. The invention includes the steps of assigning, to the meshes which are crossed by at least one of the lineaments, an orientation directed depending on that of the lineament, so as to obtain a first discrete distribution of oriented meshes; and determining, according to iterative process, directions to be assigned respectively to the other meshes by comparing directions assigned to the oriented meshes, by selecting for each mesh to be oriented an intermediate direction between an angular interval at most equal to 90.degree. formed by directions of the oriented meshes.