发明名称 |
Method and apparatus for illuminating volume data in a rendering pipeline |
摘要 |
<p>An apparatus illuminates samples in a volume rendering pipeline. The apparatus includes the following units. A gradient magnitude modulation unit produces an opacity, emissive, diffuse and specular modulation factor from a gradient magnitude vector of each sample. A reflectance mapping unit produces a diffuse intensity and a specular intensity from the gradient magnitude vector of each sample and an eye vector of the volume. A first arithmetic logic unit combines an opacity of each sample with the corresponding opacity modulation factor to generate modulated opacities. A second arithmetic logic unit combines an emissive coefficient with the emissive modulation factor of each sample to generate modulated emissive coefficients. A third arithmetic logic unit combines the diffuse intensity with the diffuse modulation factor of each sample to generate modulated diffuse intensities. A fourth arithmetic logic unit combines the specular intensity with the specular modulation factor of each sample to generate modulated specular intensities, and a lighting unit applies the modulated emissive coefficient, modulated diffuse and specular intensities to color components of the samples to illuminate the volume sample. <IMAGE></p> |
申请公布号 |
EP1054355(A2) |
申请公布日期 |
2000.11.22 |
申请号 |
EP20000109715 |
申请日期 |
2000.05.08 |
申请人 |
TERARECON, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION |
发明人 |
KNITTEL, JAMES M.;HARDENBERGH, JAN C.;PFISTER, HANSPETER;KANUS, URS H.;MARTIN, DREW R.;MOKREN, FREDERIC H. |
分类号 |
G06T15/50;G06T17/00;(IPC1-7):G06T15/50 |
主分类号 |
G06T15/50 |
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