Occlusion culling for object-order volume rendering
CA 2447899 A1 · Owner: Zuiderveld, Karel · Inventors: Zuiderveld, Karel
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Computerized systems and methods provide occlusion culling for efficiently rendering a three dimensional image. The systems and methods calculate a set of occluder shields in a voxel dataset using a transparency value associated with each voxel of the dataset. Next, the occluder shields are applied to the dataset to identify regions of the voxel data that do not contribute to the final image. Finally, the voxel data set can be rendered excluding regions , that do not contribute to the final image.
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- Filed May 23, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 23, 2022.
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