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Multi-curve rendering modification apparatus and method

  • US 5,940,083 A
  • Filed: 04/01/1997
  • Issued: 08/17/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for prescriptively and proscriptively, arbitrarily, selecting a compound curve representing a multi-curve object, the apparatus comprising:

  • a processor programmed to build a multi-curve object and to receive inputs to control rendition of a compound curve representing the multi-curve object;

    an input device operably connected to the processor for providing the inputs controlling selection of curve segments to be composed into the compound curve;

    an output device operably connected to the processor for providing a rendition of the compound curve; and

    a memory device operably connected to the processor to store data structures comprising;

    a sequence of points, subdividable into sub-sequences and corresponding to the multi-curve object,a plurality of curve segments corresponding to the sub-sequences,a selection criterion, anda selection executable, executable by the processor to select, from the curve segments, selected curve segments to be composed into the compound curve in accordance with the selection criterion.

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