Method for the automatic material classification and texture simulation for 3D models
First Claim
1. A method of automatically transforming a computerized 3D model having portions of images utilized as textures on one or more physical objects represented in the computerized 3D model to include material property information for one or more regions of the image textures of the computerized 3D model, comprising the steps of:
- examining, using computer executable code operated on a computer, at least a portion of a first image texture having unknown material properties and applied to the computerized 3D model, by;
comparing, using computer executable code operated on the computer, the portion of the first image texture of the computerized 3D model to the second texture images of material entries in a palette of material entries stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to determine a best match for the first image texture, the palette of material entries comprising a set of the second texture images, the second texture images associated with material properties of physical materials, the material properties having material property information about the physical material;
assigning the material entry in the palette that best matches the portion of the first image texture to the first image texture to indicate a physical material of the physical object represented by the portion of the first image texture in the computerized 3D model; and
storing the material property information of a selected material entry in the computerized 3D model.
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Abstract
A method of automatically transforming a computerized 3D model having regions of images utilized as textures on one or more physical objects represented in the 3D model (such as building sides and roofs, walls, landscapes, mountain sides, trees and the like) to include material property information for one or more regions of the textures of the 3D model. In this method, image textures applied to the 3D model are examined by comparing, utilizing a computer, at least a portion of each image texture to entries in a palette of material entries. The material palette entry that best matches the one contained in the image texture is assigned to indicate a physical material of the physical object represented by the 3D model. Then, material property information is stored in the computerized 3D model for the image textures that are assigned a material palette entry.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of automatically transforming a computerized 3D model having portions of images utilized as textures on one or more physical objects represented in the computerized 3D model to include material property information for one or more regions of the image textures of the computerized 3D model, comprising the steps of:
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examining, using computer executable code operated on a computer, at least a portion of a first image texture having unknown material properties and applied to the computerized 3D model, by; comparing, using computer executable code operated on the computer, the portion of the first image texture of the computerized 3D model to the second texture images of material entries in a palette of material entries stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium to determine a best match for the first image texture, the palette of material entries comprising a set of the second texture images, the second texture images associated with material properties of physical materials, the material properties having material property information about the physical material; assigning the material entry in the palette that best matches the portion of the first image texture to the first image texture to indicate a physical material of the physical object represented by the portion of the first image texture in the computerized 3D model; and storing the material property information of a selected material entry in the computerized 3D model. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 19)
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11. A method of automatically transforming a 3D model image texture, comprising the steps of:
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using a computer system to perform the steps of; locating, with one or more processors executing computer executable instructions stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, representations of predetermined structural elements in the 3D model image texture, utilizing an edge detection algorithm on the 3D model image texture; examining, using computer executable code operated on the computer system at least a portion of the representations of predetermined structural elements in the 3D model image texture, by; comparing, with the one or more processors executing computer executable instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, the representations of predetermined structural elements to entries in a palette of structural element textures representing structural elements stored on the computer system to determine best matches for the representations of predetermined structural elements; assigning, with the one or more processors executing computer executable instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, the entries in the palette of structural element textures with the best match to the structural element found in the 3D model image texture; and inserting with one or more processors executing computer executable instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, material property information about the material from the entries in the palette of structural element textures with the best match into a computerized 3D model at the same size and position as the structural elements as found in the 3D model image texture by the edge detection algorithm. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for automatically transforming a computerized 3D model having portions of images utilized as textures on one or more physical objects represented in the computerized 3D model to include material property information for one or more regions of the image textures of the computerized 3D model, the system comprising:
a computer comprising; a processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by the processor causes the computer to; examine at least a portion of a first image texture having material properties and applied to a computerized 3D model, by comparing the first image texture of the computerized 3D model to second texture images of material entries in a palette of material entries stored on the non-transitory computer readable medium, the palette of material entries comprising a set of the second texture images, the second texture images associated with material properties of physical materials, the material properties having material property information about the physical material; determine a best match for each image texture; and assign the material entry in the palette that best matches the first image texture to the first image texture to indicate a physical material of the physical object represented by the portion of the first image texture in the computerized 3D model, the non-transitory computer readable medium storing the material property information of a selected material entry in the computerized 3D model. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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