Patent ID: 8791958

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for displaying an image of a three dimensional modeled object on a computer screen, the image of the three dimensional modeled object being a combination of a degraded image and at least one visual effect, the method comprising the steps of: in response to a user interaction with a display of the image of the three dimensional modeled object, computing the degraded image, the degraded image being the image of the three dimensional modeled object without augmentation by any of the at least one visual effects; displaying the degraded image, and determining continuance of the user interaction while displaying the degraded image; while the user interaction continues; computing a user-implemented visual effect corresponding to the user interaction; and repeating k times the following steps: computing a n th transition image, wherein the n th transition image comprises one or more representations of the at least one improved visual effect compared to a (n−1) th transition image, and a first transition image comprises one or more representations of the at least one visual effect compared to degraded; computing a n th merged image by merging the degraded image and the computed n th transition image, the degraded image and the n th transition image being weighted by a weighting function ƒ defined as: ƒ( Im Deg ,Im Trans ( n ), n )=α( n )· Im Trans ( n )+(1−α( n ))· Im Deg ; Im Deg being the computed degraded image; Im Trans (n) being the computed n th transition image; and α(n) being a function ranging from 0 to 1 and having n as a variable; and displaying the n th merged image; n ranging from 1 to k, n and k being positive integers, and the n th merged image being the image of the three dimensional modeled object when n=k.