Patent ID: 6362817
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method for creating a three-dimensional view on a computer system, the computer system including a display coupled to a processor and database, the dataase including predefined three-dimensional objects, the computer system coupled to a network, the method comprisingreceiving a first symbolic map, wherein the symbolic map includes symbols and row and column adjacencies among the symbols; parsing the first symbolic map for one or more symbols associated with a predefined three-dimensional object; retrieving a predefined three-dimensional object associated with the symbol from the database, wherein two or more three-dimensional objects are each part of a common object; and rendering a display of a three-dimensional world using one or more of the predefined three-dimensional objects, wherein adjacencies in the first symbolic map are reproduced using the predfined three-dimensional objects in the display of the three-dimensional world.