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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Ronald N. Perry, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sarah F. Frisken, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jackson W. J. Pope, Westbury Park, GB;
Ronald N. Perry, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sarah F. Frisken, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jackson W. J. Pope, Westbury Park, GB;
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A system models a graphics object by first providing a model of the object, generation parameters specifying a fixed level-of-detail, and conversion parameters specifying variable levels-of-detail. An adaptively sampled distance field having the fixed level-of-detail is generated from the model, and the adaptively sampled distance field is converted from the fixed level-of-detail to the variable levels-of-detail while concurrently generating rendering primitives.