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US 7,583,263 B2Granted
System and method for transparency rendering
AssigneeSiemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
InventorsJianbing Huang, Michael B. Carter
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product that accepts raw polygon geometry and view parameters from the visualization API, sorts the polygons in back-to-front order, and then supplies the sorted triangles to graphics API such as OpenGL.
Claims21
A method for graphics processing, comprising:
- receiving node and view data for a graphic object in a data processing system;
- building a binary-space-partition tree corresponding to the graphic object, the binary-space-partition tree having up to a predetermined number of at least one shape associated with each leaf;
- sorting shapes at each leaf of the binary-space-partition tree;
- and
- outputting the sorted shapes from the data processing system.
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A data processing system having at least a processor and accessible memory, comprising:
- means for receiving node and view data for a graphic object;
- means for building a binary-space-partition tree corresponding to the graphic object, the binary-space-partition tree having up to a predetermined number of at least one shape associated with each leaf;
- means for sorting shapes at each leaf of the binary-space-partition tree;
- and
- means for outputting the sorted shapes.
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A computer program product tangibly embodied in a machine-readable medium, comprising:
- instructions for receiving node and view data for a graphic object;
- instructions for building a binary-space-partition tree corresponding to the graphic object, the binary-space-partition tree having up to a predetermined number of at least one shape associated with each leaf;
- instructions for sorting shapes at each leaf of the binary-space-partition tree;
- and
- instructions for outputting the sorted shapes.
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