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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
Vladimir Pentkovski, Folsom, CA (US);
Deep Buch, Folsom, CA (US);
Michael K. Dwyer, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Hsien-Hsin Lee, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Hsien-Cheng E. Hsieh, Gold River, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for processing normalized meshes. The normalized meshes are formed by N polygons which have M vertices. M vertex coordinates are stored in a vertex array corresponding to the M vertices of the N polygons. N polygon indices are stored in an index array. Each of the N polygon indices references a predetermined number of the M vertex coordinates. A first subset of the index array having N polygon indices is determined. A second subset of the vertex array is selected such that the second subset contains M vertex coordinates corresponding entirely to the N polygon indices in the first subset. The second subset defines a window having a small size relative to the vertex array. The M vertex coordinates in the second subset are processed to generate processed data. The processed data are then concurrently sent to a graphics processor in an on-line manner.