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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2006
Applicant:
Sean Spicer, Katy, TX (US);
Inventor:
Sean Spicer, Katy, TX (US);
Assignee:
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each texture atlas is allocated a specific amount of memory in a texture cache. Each polygon in the polygonal surface may be scan-converted and the resulting texels may be placed in the texture cache. Voxels that do not intersect any polygon in the polygonal surface may not be scan-converted. This method may result in reduced use of texture cache.