Accession Number:

ADA191008

Title:

Investigation into the Use of Texturing for Real-Time Computer Animation.

Descriptive Note:

Master's thesis,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA

Personal Author(s):

• Meier, Timothy W.

Report Date:

1987-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

118.0

Abstract:

The author presents this study an investigation into the use of texturizing on the Silicon Graphics, Inc. IRIS for real-time computer animation. Using a tool designed specifically for the IRIS for defining texture patterns, two approaches to the design and implementation of software functions to fill objects with multi-color texture patterns are discussed. The first approach makes use of the IRIS patterning hardware to fill objects with multi-color texture patterns. Realizing the limitations of the first approach, the second approach uses an algorithm to partition a polygon defined in three space into a number of smaller polygons, which each polygon representing a texture point.

Descriptors:

• *TEXTURE
• *COMPUTER GRAPHICS
• *REAL TIME
• ALGORITHMS
• COLORS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• PATTERNS
• POLYGONS
• SILICON
• THESES
• TWO DIMENSIONAL
• THREE DIMENSIONAL
• EDITING

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE