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Immediate mode drawing interface for the construction of graphics software

  • US 5,990,911 A
  • Filed: 11/14/1997
  • Issued: 11/23/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/21/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for generating graphic images, comprising:

  • a computer having a graphics peripheral device and an input peripheral device attached thereto;

    an application program, performed by the computer, for receiving commands from a user via the input device and for generating an output command stream in response thereto, wherein the output command stream comprises one or more instructions for generating the graphic images; and

    a plurality of renderer programs, performed by the computer, wherein a first group of the renderer programs is directly coupled to one or more sources and only one sink, a second group of the renderer programs is directly coupled to a plurality of sources and only one sink, the sources are the application program and other ones of the renderer programs, the sinks are other ones of the renderer programs and the graphics peripheral device, and each of the renderer programs selectively modifies the output command stream received from the sources and transmitted to the sink.

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