发明名称 Geometry instructions for graphics data compression
摘要 In a compression system, three-dimensional geometry is first represented as a generalized triangle mesh, a data structure that allows each instance of a vertex in a linear stream to specify an average of two triangles. Individual positions, colors, and normals are quantized, preferably quantizing normals using a novel translation to non-rectilinear representation. A variable length compression is applied to individual positions, colors, and normals. The quantized values are then delta-compression encoded between neighbors, followed by a modified Huffman compression for positions and colors. A table-based approach is used for normals. Decompression reverses this process. The decompressed stream of triangle data may then be passed to a traditional rendering pipeline, where it is processed in full floating point accuracy.
申请公布号 US6532012(B2) 申请公布日期 2003.03.11
申请号 US20010812477 申请日期 2001.03.19
申请人 SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. 发明人 DEERING MICHAEL F.
分类号 G06F17/50;G06T9/00;G06T17/00;G06T17/40;(IPC1-7):G06T17/20 主分类号 G06F17/50
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