Patent ID: 9728003
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G01V,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for editing models of physical geological structures, the method comprising: accepting seismic data; generating a three-dimensional (3D) present day model having points representing present day locations of the physical geological structures and a three-dimensional (3D) past depositional model having points representing locations where the physical geological structures were computed to be originally deposited, wherein a global transformation defines a correspondence between points in the present day model and points in the past depositional model; adding corresponding points to the present day and past depositional models and adding a local transformation to the global transformation, wherein the local transformation defines the correspondence between the points added to the present day model and the points added to the past depositional model; and displaying an altered version of the present day or past depositional models altered by the added points and the added local transformation.