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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorPatrick Wayne John Evans
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Rendering real-time three-dimensional computer models is a resource-intensive task, and even more so for point cloud objects. Level of detail is traditionally performed using a small number of fixed-size independent models. A new system is presented of rendering point cloud objects with efficient dynamic level of detail. Several novel point cloud dynamic level of detail techniques are presented that are fairly simple to implement and significantly more efficient in terms of managing rendering load, data reduction, and memory consumption. The novel point cloud dynamic level of detail techniques can be employed to optimize or otherwise improve the rendering efficiency of rendering point cloud objects.
A method, executable on a computing device having a processor, for rendering a pre-ordered point cloud list that enables dynamic level of detail, comprising:
The method of claim 2, wherein said level of detail index is computed based on at least one of:
A system for rendering a pre-ordered point cloud list that enables dynamic level of detail comprising:
One or more computer-readable media, having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that perform a method executable on a computing device having a processor, for rendering a pre-ordered point cloud list that enables dynamic level of detail comprising:
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