Patent ID: 8352443

Claim:
A method of instantiating scene components of computer graphics scenes by processing a database query, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems, a database query including selection criteria; determining, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, an opinion resolving order that specifies an order of resolution of heterogeneous opinion sets grouping one or more component attribute value opinions for one or more component attributes; selecting, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, data records representing atomic elements of scene components from a database based on the selection criteria, wherein each of the selected data records is associated with a component attribute, a component attribute value opinion, and one of the heterogeneous opinion sets; and resolving, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, the selected data records to determine a resolved query result, wherein the resolution of the selected data records is based on the order of resolution and each heterogeneous opinion set associated with the selected data records; and generating, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a scene description data structure based on the resolved query result.