Volume body renderer
CA 2834997 C · Owner: Landmark Graphics Corporation, A Halliburton Company · Inventors: Callegari, Andres C.
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Irregular volumes within one or more three dimensional volume datasets are identified and extracted in response to criteria (16). The processing involves automatically finding a seed voxel or seed cell that meets the criteria and thus belongs to an irregular volume of interest and then identifying cells related to the seed cell by one or more predetermined relationships that are therefore also to be grouped into that irregular volume. Information of a suitable type identifies each cell as being related to other cells and belongs to an irregular volume is stored in a data structure (12). Attributes or properties of the identified cell are stored. The extraction and pre- processing allows for …
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- Filed April 17, 2002 and granted September 13, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 2022.
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