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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Markus Andrew Schill, Heidelberg, DE;
Sarah F. Gibson, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
Abstract
An improvement to a voxel-based system to permit rapidly deforming volumetric objects made up of inhomogeneous material provides different material constraints assigned to different elements, with the constraints of a link between two neighboring elements being calculated from contributions of the two affected elements. The order in which neighbors of moved element are considered for a move determines where in the body information is propagated first. The processing order can therefore be used to model different direction-dependent propagation speeds in the material.