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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Bronskill, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/120 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/120 ;
Abstract
A method for drawing a paint stroke with a bitmap brush having pixels located at locations definable in a Cartesian coordinate system. The paint stroke is created by defining a path of a guide line, the path having an arc-length and the guide line having a thickness, and scaling the bitmap brush as a function of the arc-length of the path and the thickness of the guide line. The bitmap brush is then transformed such that the x-axis of the bitmap brush generally aligns with the path and the y-axis of the bitmap brush generally aligns with an instantaneous normal to the path such that the bitmap brush is warped to the guide line.