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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Paul Zack Thuneman, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Thomas A. Grandine, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jan H. Vandenbrande, Sammamish, WA (US);
Gregory Mikel Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Zack Thuneman, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Thomas A. Grandine, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jan H. Vandenbrande, Sammamish, WA (US);
Gregory Mikel Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
This description provides tools for lazy evaluation of geometric definitions of objects within procedural programming environments. Computer-based methods provided by these tools may parse input program code that includes statements that are syntactically consistent with a procedural programming language. These statements may also include defined functions that are not syntactically consistent with the procedural programming language. The defined functions may be associated with a given function that is defined according to the procedural programming language. The given function may relate to a geometric design of an object. The methods may identify inputs and outputs to this given function, and may build a dependency graph that relates this given function to other functions, based on the inputs and/or outputs of the given function. The methods may delay evaluating the given function until a triggering event occurs, at which time the methods may evaluate the given function to produce the output.