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Patent No.:

US 9418477 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014

Rendering damaged-enhanced images in a computer simulation

Applicant:

Cae Inc., Saint-Laurent, CA;

Inventors:

Patrick Piche, Saint-Eustache, CA;

Jonathan Breton, Laval, CA;

Assignee:

CAE INC., Saint-Laurent, CA;

Attorney:

Foley & Lardner LLP

Primary Examiner:

Ming Hon

Assistant Examiner:

Yu-Jang Tswei

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/30 (2011.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06G 7/48 (2006.01); G06F 12/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 13/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/205 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 15/30 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06F 12/16 (2013.01); G06F 15/173 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01); G06G 7/48 (2013.01); G06T 13/00 (2013.01); G06T 15/00 (2013.01); G06T 2210/21 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2021 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method and computer system for rendering damaged-enhanced images in a computer simulation comprising a computer generated environment. During the computer simulation, determining coordinates of a virtual impact having an effective radius on 3D polygon mesh(es) of the computer generated environment, identifying rendering faces of the 3D polygon mesh(es) affected by the virtual impact, clipping at runtime the affected rendering faces to a mathematically-defined subtraction shape computed considering the effective radius, computing newly formed 3D polygon mesh(es) and rendering at least one damaged-enhanced image for display comprising a subset of rendering faces of the newly formed 3D polygon mesh(es) using a visual texture, the subset being determined from a field of view of the computer simulation.

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