Method for the automatic material classification and texture simulation for 3D models
First Claim
1. A method of automatically creating a computerized 3D model to include material property information for one or more regions of image textures of the computerized 3D model, comprising the steps of:
- creating a computerized 3D model;
examining, using computer executable code operated on a computer, a portion of a first image texture having unknown material properties, by;
comparing, using computer executable code operated on the computer, the portion of the first image texture to 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 materials; and
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 a physical object represented by the portion of the first image texture;
storing the material property information of a selected material entry; and
associating the material property information with 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 creating a computerized 3D model to include material property information for one or more regions of image textures of the computerized 3D model, comprising the steps of:
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creating a computerized 3D model; examining, using computer executable code operated on a computer, a portion of a first image texture having unknown material properties, by; comparing, using computer executable code operated on the computer, the portion of the first image texture to 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 materials; and 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 a physical object represented by the portion of the first image texture; storing the material property information of a selected material entry; and associating the material property information with the computerized 3D model. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of automatically creating a computerized 3D model, comprising the steps of:
using a computer system to perform the steps of; creating a computerized 3D model; locating, with one or more processors executing computer executable instructions stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, representations of predetermined structural roof elements in the 3D model, utilizing an edge detection algorithm on the 3D model; 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, 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 roof elements in the 3D model to texture images of 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; and associating, with the 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 with the 3D model at the same size and position as the structural elements as found in the 3D model by the edge detection algorithm. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for automatically creating a computerized 3D model to include material property information for one or more regions of 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; create a computerized 3D model; examine at least a portion of a first image texture having material properties, by comparing the first image texture 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 the first 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 represented by the portion of the first image texture, the non-transitory computer readable medium storing the material property information of a selected material entry. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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