Position-based media pipeline for volumetric displays

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by one or more computers, a texture atlas comprising one or more slices of a three-dimensional (3D) animation;
• generating, by the one or more computers, a pixel map;
• sampling, by the one or more computers, the texture atlas to the pixel map to generate volumetric image data;
• and
• outputting, by the one or more computers, the volumetric image data.

A system, comprising:

• a volumetric display comprising at least two pixels arranged in a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space, the volumetric display configured to receive volumetric image data and render the volumetric image data corresponding to the at least two pixels;
• and
• a device comprising a processor and a memory, the device being configured to:
• receive a first input comprising a 3D pixel position dataset and a second input comprising a 3D animation;
• create a first volume representation based on the 3D animation;
• create a second volume representation based on the first volume representation, the second volume representation including color data;
• assemble a texture atlas based on the second volume representation;
• generate the volumetric image data based on the texture atlas;
• and
• output the volumetric image data.