Patent ID: 7924289

Claim:
A method for displaying an image of an object on a display device, the image comprising at least one pixel, the method comprising: determining weighting factors for the color calculation of a color value of texels for a footprint covering a plurality of texels in a texel grid, wherein the footprint is a projection of the object, and wherein determining the weighting factors comprises: (a) determining form information of the footprint; (b) determining edges of the footprint; (c) approximating the edges determined in step (b) by a staircase function; (d) determining the texels of the texel grid contacted by the staircase function; and (e) determining a weighting factor for each texel containing a portion of the staircase function depending on a subarea of the respective texel covered by the footprint; and displaying an image of said object on said display device wherein said image include the determined texel color values.