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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2009
Minmin Gong, Beijing, CN;
Minmin Gong, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Triangles are tessellated by an algorithm that is adapted for efficient parallel processing. A plurality of input triangles for tessellation are received. Within each input triangle, a number of tessellated vertices and a number of output triangles to be generated are calculated. A scan-based methodology accesses data stored in lookup tables to generate locations of the output triangles within the input triangle. In some implementations, multiple output triangles within the input triangle are generated simultaneously by parallel processing. A tessellated input triangle is divided into the multiple output triangles that are rendered in a computer graphic system.