CA2131221A1 - Method and apparatus for rendering objects on a display with added realism - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for rendering objects on a display with added realism

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CA2131221A1
CA2131221A1 CA002131221A CA2131221A CA2131221A1 CA 2131221 A1 CA2131221 A1 CA 2131221A1 CA 002131221 A CA002131221 A CA 002131221A CA 2131221 A CA2131221 A CA 2131221A CA 2131221 A1 CA2131221 A1 CA 2131221A1
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objects
rendering
computer system
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Edward H. Frank
Patrick J. Naughton
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T15/00—3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering
    • G06T15/10—Geometric effects
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06T—IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
    • G06T1/00—General purpose image data processing

Abstract

The graphics applications of a 2-D graphics computer system provide each object to be rendered on a 2-D raster display with a pair of rendering reference coordinates (x and y), and a relative depth value (z).
Additionally, the computer system is provided with a library of predetermined D images and sounds, and a number of graphics toolkit routines. As the user "moves", the graphics toolkit routines render selected ones of the predetermined images based on x/z and y/z values of recomputed x and y rendering coordinates and the relative depths value z of the objects, and actuate the sounds if applicable based on their predetermined manners of rendering.
As a result, the objects that are further away from the user will move slower than the objects that are closer to the user, thereby introducing the effect of parallax and added realism to the 2-D graphics computer system at a substantially lower cost.
CA002131221A 1993-08-31 1994-08-31 Method and apparatus for rendering objects on a display with added realism Expired - Fee Related CA2131221C (en)

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JP3700863B2 (en) 2005-09-28
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JPH07254076A (en) 1995-10-03
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