3D Model Rendering via Geometry and Graphical Data Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional CAD software struggles with efficiently rendering, navigating, and sharing three-dimensional models due to lack of realistic appearance, intuitive navigational tools, and compatibility issues, which limits effective display and security in sharing designs.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that capture and render three-dimensional models' geometry and graphical attributes, allowing intuitive navigation and secure sharing without requiring the original design software, using a capture and render software application that creates a geometric computer model file, enabling viewing and exploration in a virtual reality environment and sharing over networks without proprietary data exposure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If conventional design software renders three-dimensional models with full details (shading, color, finish, transparency), then realistic appearance is improved, but computing power and time requirements increase excessively
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the three-dimensional model data into two distinct components: geometry data (structural information) and graphical aspect data (visual rendering information). This segmentation allows the system to process and display only the necessary visual elements without requiring excessive computational resources to handle complete model data, thereby achieving realistic appearance with reduced computing power requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts only the essential graphical aspect data (shading, color, finish, transparency) needed for realistic display from the complete three-dimensional model. By taking out and separating these visual properties from the full model data, the system can render realistic appearances without processing the entire model, thus reducing computational power and time consumption.
2Loss of information
If conventional design software shares complete three-dimensional model files, then viewer can access all design details, but proprietary data security is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and separates graphical aspect data from geometry data, allowing the system to share only the extracted visual representation data with viewers. This extraction process enables viewers to access design details through rendered images while the complete geometry data containing proprietary information remains secure on the designer's system, thus preventing data misappropriation while maintaining design detail accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism that converts complete three-dimensional model data into rendered graphical representations. This intermediary process allows the transmission of visual design information to viewers without exposing the underlying geometry data, serving as a mediator between full model accessibility and proprietary data protection.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional design software requires viewers to have the same design software installed, then full model viewing capability is ensured, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the three-dimensional model in the form of graphical aspect data that can be displayed without requiring the original design software. Instead of requiring viewers to install complex design software, the system provides a lightweight viewer application that can interpret and display the extracted graphical data, thereby ensuring viewing capability while reducing system complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent develops a universal viewer application that can display graphical aspect data from three-dimensional models created with different design software. This multi-functional viewer eliminates the requirement for viewers to have specific design software installed, allowing broad compatibility across different platforms and software while maintaining full viewing capability.
4Loss of information
If conventional design software exports large three-dimensional model files, then complete design information is preserved, but file transfer and sharing become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the graphical aspect data from the complete three-dimensional model, creating a separate, compressed representation that contains visual design information. This extraction process significantly reduces file size for transfer and sharing while preserving the essential design information needed for viewing, thus resolving the contradiction between information completeness and file size.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the complete model data into geometry data (retained locally) and graphical aspect data (shared remotely). By segmenting the data in this way, the system can share only the necessary visual representation through email or other communication channels, dramatically reducing file transfer size while maintaining access to complete design information through the original model file.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and design software allow for easy and efficient rendering, displaying, navigation, and/or sharing of computer generated designs and models. One or more implementations allow a user to share the geometry and the graphical attributes of a three-dimensional model without sharing the source file or the proprietary details of the source file. In particular, the one or more implementations provide the ability to capture the geometry and the graphical attributes of a three-dimensional model, and share then captured geometry with others. Furthermore, one or more implementations can allow for sharing of the geometry and graphical attributes of a three-dimensional model without requiring the viewer to have the software used to create the three-dimensional model.