Patent ID: 8149237

Claim:
A tangible non-transitory information processing apparatus comprising: a mesh information acquisition portion configured to deform a first mesh of a three-dimensional object into a deformed mesh of the three-dimensional object, points in the first mesh being translated into points in the deformed mesh; a deformed slice information group acquisition portion configured to use said deformed mesh to acquire deformed planes, said deformed mesh being a tetrahedral mesh model; a color information determination portion configured to determine new color information for each of the deformed planes; a new slice information group acquisition portion configured to associate each of the deformed planes with said new color information, said new color information associated with said deformed planes being a new slice information group, wherein said new slice information group is displayable on a deformed object output portion, wherein said color information determination portion comprises: a corresponding point determining unit determines points in the 3D voxel information that respectively correspond to the points of the plurality of slice information constituting a first slice information group, and a color information determining unit acquires the color information of the points in the 3D voxel information that were determined by the corresponding point determining unit.