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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2004
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for bump mapping in a hardware graphics processor. Initially, a first set of texture coordinates is received. The texture coordinates are then multiplied by a matrix to generate results. A second set of texture coordinates is then offset utilizing the results. The offset second set of texture coordinates is then mapped to color.