Method of rendering an image and a method of animating a graphics character
First Claim
1. A method of generating behavior of a graphics character within an environment including a selected graphics character and one or more graphics elements, the method comprising:
- generating an image of the environment from a perspective of the selected graphics character; and
processing the image using an artificial intelligence engine with one or more layers to determine an activation value for the graphics character wherein at least one of the layers is a fuzzy processing layer.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of rendering an image and a method of animating a graphics character (13) in response to rendered image information. More particularly, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a method of rendering an image viewed by an autonomous computer generated character and a method for controlling behaviour of the character based upon the rendered image. The present invention may find particular application in autonomous computer generated character animation for video games and to produce visual effects for film or video. The invention may also find application in simulation and robot navigation applications. The invention employs one or more fuzzy processing layers (23, 32, 24).
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24 Claims
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1. A method of generating behavior of a graphics character within an environment including a selected graphics character and one or more graphics elements, the method comprising:
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generating an image of the environment from a perspective of the selected graphics character; and
processing the image using an artificial intelligence engine with one or more layers to determine an activation value for the graphics character wherein at least one of the layers is a fuzzy processing layer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. Canceled
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15. A method of rendering an image from three dimensional graphical information comprising:
rendering images for a plurality of adjacent image sub space regions, wherein the images are rendered as viewed from a common view point and different viewing orientations. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of rendering an image from graphic information comprising:
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performing a polar transformation to determine at least one position of one or more vertices of a graphics primitive;
projecting the graphics primitive into sub images;
clipping the graphics primitive against the sub images to form clipped primitives;
performing polar transformations of the vertices of the clipped images;
interpolating across the surface of the clipped primitives to form pseudo polar sub images; and
combining the pseudo polar sub images to form an image. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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23. Canceled
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24. Canceled
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