Three-dimensional image compression method

摘要

The present invention provides a system for efficiently representing and storing texture data used with polygon textures in representing three-dimensional objects. The system comprises determination of complexity of each polygon texture, combining textures of similar complexity into a two-dimensional composite texture image, and compressing each composite texture image. In some embodiments of the invention, the composite texture image is formed by resampling textures to a selected two-dimensional triangle, rotating triangles with respect to each other and packing the triangles close together to form a continuous composite texture image. <IMAGE>