Patent ID: 8274516

Claim:
A graphics processing system, comprising: a texture component for converting retained graph information into retained graph texture information that includes time information stored as time texture information and animation information stored as animation texture information; and a shader component for evaluating the retained graph texture information entirely on a graphics processing unit (GPU), the shader component including: a first pixel shader that evaluates the time texture information and outputs progress texture information based on the time texture information; a second pixel shader that receives the progress texture information and the animation texture information, interpolates the animation texture information based on the progress texture information, and outputs at least one of color texture information, position texture information, or opacity texture information based on the progress texture information and the animation texture information; and a vertex shader that receives at least path vertex data and texture information output from the second pixel shader, and outputs transformed vertex data based on the path vertex data and texture information output from the second pixel shader.