Patent Document ID: 8659591
Application ID: 12438721
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of correlating a two dimensional representation of a body to a three dimensional representation of the body using a computer comprising: i. acquiring a two dimensional representation of the body; ii. generating, by the computer, a fitness function for the two dimensional representation; iii. determining, by the computer, two dimensional outlines of the three dimensional representation of the body for a plurality of sets of three dimensional position and orientation values, the two dimensional outline of the three dimensional body is determined using ray tracing from the origin of the position and orientation values, the origin being outside of the three dimensional representation; iv. comparing, by the computer, the two dimensional outlines to the fitness function to generate measures of fit for each set of three dimensional position and orientation values; v. breeding, by the computer, new sets of position and orientation values using a genetic algorithm; and vi. repeating steps iii to v until the measure of fit converges to an acceptable solution where the two dimensional representation of the body is correlated to the three dimensional representation of the body.