Method for Editing Gridded Surfaces
AssigneeSeismic Micro-Technology, Inc.
InventorRobert Allison Baker, III
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Abstract
A method of editing a surface representing a quantitative field is disclosed which facilitates getting a surface to conform to a required shape. In embodiments, the methods revise a surface display substantially in real time by altering a predetermined visual characteristic of the displayed surface as a function of changed original values, the predetermined visual characteristic comprising at least one of a contour line representative of a set of the changed original values or a one-to-one color mapping between a changed original value and color.
Claims12
A method of editing data representative of geographically distributed data, comprising:
- a. acquiring a set of data points representative of predetermined geographical data;
- b. displaying the acquired data points as a surface on a computer display;
- c. locating a region of interest on the displayed surface;
- d. displaying a focal point in the region of interest;
- e. generating a set of values in a predetermined plane around the focal point which, if displayed as elevations, would approximate a cone;
- f. indicating a desired direction of distortion;
- g. distorting the displayed surface by changing a predetermined set of the data points' current values proportional to values of data points in the cone as a function of the location of the data points' current data in the area covered by the cone;
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- h. revising the display of the surface substantially in real time by altering a predetermined visual characteristic of the display as a function of the changed data points' values, the predetermined visual characteristic comprising at least one of a contour line representative of a set of the changed original values or a one-to-one color mapping between a changed original value and color.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.