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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2009
Applicant:
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventor:
Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pixar, Emeryville, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The efficiency of shading and rendering processes can be improved through implementing object oriented programming for shading program languages. Computer graphics data representing a geometric model in a scene are determined and assigned to object oriented classes and subclasses and are subsequently sorted and grouped into several (e.g., two or more) groups based on the classification information. Once the computer graphics data are assigned in a class and/or subclasses and grouped, a shader interpreter implements SIMD operators on each group of data values.