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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 31, 1997
Keith Fish, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
David Luttropp, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A geometrical object representation system efficiently represents primitives for a computer graphics system in order to generate a display of a desired geometrical object surface. A data list repository is configured to maintain a linked list of strip primitives received from an application program. A strip builder traverses the linked list searching for matching vertices of unmatched strips. The strip builder uses a logic manipulation to quickly exclude obvious non-matches. After finding two strips with matching vertices, strip builder joins the two strips together. This joining process creates larger strips which represent the geometrical object in a more compact and efficient form. A graphics system can use this more efficient form of data to reduce data calls and decrease run time in processing the data for rendering by a display.