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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Jason Major, Redmond, WA (US);
John Adam Croston, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods for generating a virtual world are described. The virtual world may comprise a three-dimensional gameworld associated with a video game. The virtual world may be represented by a plurality of voxels arranged in a three-dimensional grid. Each voxel of the plurality of voxels may be associated with various attributes such as one or more color values, an opacity value, a location within the virtual world, a fill value, and a cubify value. In some embodiments, the virtual world may be generated or edited using a computer graphics editing tool that assigns one or more cubify values to one or more voxels using a voxel selection tool, such as a cubify brush. A voxel's cubify value may be used to determine how the voxel is rendered by a rendering engine, for example, whether the voxel is rendered as a rectilinear cube or as a smooth isosurface.