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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2009
Igor Guskov, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Emil C. Praun, Fremont, CA (US);
Paul Strauss, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Costa Touma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Igor Guskov, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Emil C. Praun, Fremont, CA (US);
Paul Strauss, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Costa Touma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A proxy based approach for generation of level of detail. In an embodiment, the present invention generates level of detail using a proxy based approach by (1) receiving a three dimensional polygon mesh with textures; (2) extracting a set of masking primitives above a first threshold from the three dimensional polygon mesh; (3) calculating a set of proxy planes, where the calculation includes associating each proxy plane with at least one of the masking primitives; and (4) optimizing the set of proxy planes.