SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING MESHES INCORPORATING NON-SPATIAL DATA

摘要

A system for modeling 3D objects and 2D images by wireframe mesh constructions having data points that combined both spatial data (2a) and surface information (2b). The use of the complex data points allows the modeling system to incorporate both the spatial features of the object as well as surface features into the wireframe mesh (2c). The present invention's 3D object models do not require a separate texture map file for generating display or other object manipulations. The mesh constructions (2c-g) contain sufficient color information such that the triangles of the meshes can be rendered by any processor supporting linear or bilinear interpolation such as Gouraud shading. For 2D systems the 2D mesh models (2c-g) created replace bitmap files and present a greater level of data compression and flexibility in image manipulation than is currently available in compression systems. The modeling system has dynamic resolution capability (2c-2g).