Patent ID: 7580043
Filing Date: 2009-08-25
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method in a computer system for adding detail to a texture map comprising at least one texture element, the method comprising: generating, in the computer system, a detail map; assigning, in the computer system, a pointer into the detail map to the at least one texture element of the texture map to generate a pointer map, the pointer comprising two offsets; determining, in the computer system, a texture address and a level of detail; retrieving, in the computer system, offsets from the pointer map when detail is indicated as needed by the level of detail; using, in the computer system, the offsets as detail map addresses; accessing, in the computer system, the detail map; interpolating, in the computer system, results of the detail map accessing when multiple accesses are performed; and generating, in the computer system, at least one final pixel color by mapping the texture map and the detail map to a surface of a computer-generated object.