Patent ID: 8022947

Claim:
A method for imaging a three-dimensional volume of seismic-data traces representing a waveform volume, which comprises: retrieving texture coordinates (s, t) for a pixel in a display device that intersects the waveform volume; computing an amplitude for a first trace at pixel texture coordinate (t) representing a first trace amplitude; computing a texture coordinate (S) for the first trace amplitude; coloring the pixel with a preset trace color if the first trace amplitude texture coordinate (S) is equal to the pixel texture coordinate (s); computing an amplitude for a second trace at pixel texture coordinate (t) representing a second trace amplitude; computing a texture coordinate (S′) for the second trace amplitude; coloring the pixel with the preset trace color if the second trace amplitude texture coordinate (S′) is equal to the pixel texture coordinate (s); coloring the pixel with a preset background color if the second trace amplitude texture coordinate (S′) is greater than the pixel texture coordinate (s); and modifying the pixel texture coordinates (s, t) and repeating the computing and coloring steps if an iteration count is less than a desired seismic-data trace overlap.