System architecture for virtual rendering of a print production piece

摘要

A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the binding elements may further include 3D binding models as well as 2D textures on 3D surfaces to simulate 3D models.

主权项

1. A modular document production visualization system, comprising:
a controller; a print product definition; a plurality of architecture layers managed and organized by the controller wherein the plurality of architecture layers include a print job ticket adaptation layer, a physical model layer, a display model layer, and a rendering layer; the print job ticket adaptation layer reading the print product definition and transforming the print product definition into a physical model that describes the static nature of the print job to be rendered, said physical model being represented, at least in part, by physical model blocks representing, in a scene, a set of adjoining sheets of the same media with the same orientation; the physical model layer transforming the physical model into a display model that uses abstractions to represent various artifacts produced by the job and a data-binding parser to load the physical model into a memory, and where each physical model block is mapped to a plurality of display model blocks; and the display model layer transforming the display model into the scene displayed as a three dimensional virtual rendering of the print product definition by the rendering layer on a graphical user interface, wherein the scene includes representations of a plurality of physical model blocks.