Hierarchical blurring of texture maps

Abstract

Systems and methods for hierarchical blurring of texture maps are described herein. An embodiment includes determining a region where a texture is partially mapped to a 3D surface and populating an unmapped portion of the determined region with compressible low frequency data. A system embodiment includes a region determiner to determine a region of interest in an image and a blurring engine to populate an unmapped portion of determined region with compressible low frequency data. In this way, when a texture is partially mapped to the 3D model's surface, leaving the rest unused, embodiments of the invention save bandwidth by padding an unmapped region with compressible low frequency information. Furthermore, embodiments avoid contaminating a rendered 3D model with unwanted colors which bleed in when unmapped pixels are averaged in with mapped pixels.

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