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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1998
Karl J. Wood, Crawley, GB;
Cornelis W. A. M. Van Overveld, Eindhoven, NL;
Hendrik Dijkstra, Eindhoven, NL;
Douglas R. M. Patterson, Cambridge, GB;
Karl J. Wood, Crawley, GB;
Cornelis W. A. M. Van Overveld, Eindhoven, NL;
Hendrik Dijkstra, Eindhoven, NL;
Douglas R. M. Patterson, Cambridge, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus for texture mapping in a computer graphics system, using a predetermined set of standardized textures. Each texture of the standardized set is a procedural texture, and is supplied to the apparatus as one or a sequence of program commands the execution of which will result in the generation of the respective procedural texture. In a preferred embodiment, the means for processing the program commands comprises a processor operable to implement only those input program commands or sequences of input program commands as are required to generate the procedural textures of the standardized set.