Patent ID: 6897859

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for outputting image data for displaying a desired 3D-shape composed of a plurality of polygons, comprising: storage locations for storing vector data defining a regular polyhedron which has a centroid at an arbitrary point in a space and each of whose faces is divided into a plurality of polygons and representing directions from the centroid toward vertices of the plurality of polygons, and for storing distance data for setting distances between the centroid and the vertices of the plurality of polygons of the desired 3D-shape, a reading mechanism for reading the vector data and the distance data from the storage locations, and an image data outputting processing mechanism for outputting image data for displaying an image of the desired 3D-shape such that the vertices of the plurality of polygons of the desired 3D-shape are points which are, from the centroid, at distances based on the distance data and in directions based on the vector data read from the reading mechanism.