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System and method for rendering flow and volumes

US8115766B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Purdue Research Foundation · US

Inventors

Nikolai Svakhine · San Jose, US
Yun-Seok JANG · West Lafayette, US
David Scott Ebert · West Lafayette, US
Kelly P. Gaither · Austin, US
Thomas Ertl · Ranstadt, DE
Eduardo Jose Tejada-Gamero · Gernsheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 8, 2007
Grant date	Feb 14, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 6, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T15/08
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for rendering flows and volumes includes the steps of generating a preintegrated table, the preintegrated table having a plurality of entries, each of the plurality of entries having color information and opacity information, generating illustrative effects based on the plurality of entries of the preintegrated table and displaying the illustrative effects.

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