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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 17, 1995
Keiro Muro, Kokubunji, JP;
Kazuaki Iwamura, Kodaira, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An integrated data structure is provided which can be maintained and managed by selectively using data storage forms for storing graphic data representing three-dimensional figures, such as houses, roads, underground piping and the like, according to the properties of an object figure and mixing the same. Three control flags respectively specifying three kinds of operations for extension to be carried out for extending two-dimensional graphic data comprising two-dimensional coordinates (x, y) can be selectively used. An extension 1 to specify the component points of a figure by coordinates (x, y, z), an extension 2 to specify a z-coordinate indicating the altitude of a figure for the figure, and an extension 2 to specify a value d and information f indicating the construction of a figure having a predetermined shape and a method of display are used individually or in combination to form a three-dimensional figure. A variety of three-dimensional figures can be formed by using a comparatively small amount of graphic data, requiring a storage apparatus having a comparatively small storage capacity.