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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2010
Applicants:
Simon Green, Theale, GB;
Miguel Sainz, Theale, GB;
Wladimir Van Der Laan, Theale, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for rendering a particle-based fluid surface includes generating a depth image of a plurality of particles which form a fluid surface, and smoothing the depth image to generate a smoothed depth image. From the smoothed depth image, a smoothed surface position and a smoothed surface normal for each of a plurality of pixels included within the smoothed depth image is determined, and a shaded surface of the fluid is rendered as a function of the smoothed surface positions and the smoothed surface normals.