Patent ID: 8243075

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for displaying a radial tessellation, comprising: (a) selecting a single source image; (b) activating a feature to create a radial tessellation; (c) specifying a triangular sector of the source image; (d) transferring the triangular sector to a texture buffer of a graphics processing unit (GPU); (e) the GPU automatically creating, without additional user input, the radial tessellation by: (i) drawing the triangular sector on a destination image; (ii) repeatedly flipping and drawing the triangular sector along a leading edge of the triangular sector to create a closed polygon; and (iii) repeatedly flipping and drawing the triangular sector onto the destination image to create outer rings around the closed polygon and filling the destination image to create the radial tessellation; and (f) animating the radial tessellation over time across multiple frames of a clip of image data.