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Generating image data

  • US 6,496,597 B1
  • Filed: 03/03/1999
  • Issued: 12/17/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of generating image data, wherein a plurality of elements are defined in three dimensional space;

  • whereinselected elements are set as being non-occluding;

    light emission values for said elements are determined by calculating the effect of light reflections between said elements; and

    an accumulated level of light is reduced in response to the visibility of elements including at least one of said non-occluding elements and in accordance with the formula Bj=Ej+Rj·

    (

    i=1n


    Bi·

    Fji


    i=1n


    Fji
    )
    embedded imagewherein B represents a flux density of an element E, R represents a reflectance of the element E, and F represents a form factor.

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