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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2001
Bruce Willard Hultgren, Victoria, MN (US);
Timothy W. Vadnais, Victoria, MN (US);
Michael Craig Marshall, Carver, MN (US);
Grant James Cermak, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Bruce Willard Hultgren, Victoria, MN (US);
Timothy W. Vadnais, Victoria, MN (US);
Michael Craig Marshall, Carver, MN (US);
Grant James Cermak, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Geodigm Corporation, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide a distributed computing system delivering and manipulating electronic model images to end users. One aspect of the present invention includes a method for providing electronic delivery of electronic model images. The method generates one or more electronic model images, a portion of the electronic model images being generated from scanned electronic data of a physical object, stores the electronic model images within computer readable memory of a server-based computing system, delivers the electronic model images to a remote client computer over a distributed communications network, manipulates the electronic model images upon the remote client computer, and performs analysis and a course of action using the manipulated electronic model images. The electronic model images comprise in part a polygonal mesh representation of the physical object.