Patent ID: 7934994

Claim:
In a gaming machine comprising a master gaming controller, a display device, and a memory device, a method of displaying a plurality of game windows on the display device wherein at least one of the game windows is used to present a game of chance, the method comprising: generating a plurality of 3-D game windows arranged in a 3-D game interface model wherein the 3-D game interface model comprises a 3-D geometric surface description for each of the plurality of game windows; mapping game window content to each of the 3-D game windows; rendering first game window content in a first 3-D game window; rendering second game window content in a second 3-D game window; rendering the first game window content in the second 3-D game window; rendering the second game window content in the first 3-D game window rendering a two-dimensional image derived from a three-dimensional object in the 3-D game interface model stored in the memory device on the gaming machine; and displaying the rendered two-dimensional image to the display device on the gaming machine.