公开(公告)号：US06188403B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-13

申请号：US08975987

申请日：1997-11-21

申请人： Earl D. Sacerdoti ,  David Foote ,  Mark T. Davis ,  Leigh Rosser ,  Humberto C. Gerola ,  Philip J. Bernosky ,  John M. McGraw ,  Wolfgang H. Gerola

发明人： Earl D. Sacerdoti ,  David Foote ,  Mark T. Davis ,  Leigh Rosser ,  Humberto C. Gerola ,  Philip J. Bernosky ,  John M. McGraw ,  Wolfgang H. Gerola

IPC分类号： G06F300

CPC分类号： G06T11/206 ,  G06F17/30554 ,  G06F17/30592 ,  Y10S715/968

摘要： A 3D graphics generation and display application for PCs and laptops in a business environment includes an authoring mode screen which lists database elements sought to be graphically displayed, along with a list of variables pertaining to the database elements. Also, the application presents a menu of graphics attributes, including each of the three spatial dimensions and time, as well as various graphics object attributes, such as color, size, rotation, opacity, intensity, texture, etc. The user determines whether the graphics objects are balls for a scatter plot, bars for a bar chart, pie-shaped elements for a pie chart, or other 3D representation. By clicking on a database variable in the list of variables and dragging it over an attribute on the attribute menu, the user can correlate the database variable with the graphics attribute. When the user correlates a variable to a graphics attribute, the correlation is noted by a legend that is displayed with the menu of attributes. The graphics are displayed in an animated 3D presentation with graphics attributes, including their motion over time, determined by the database variables which have been correlated to the attributes.

摘要翻译： 业务环境中用于PC和笔记本电脑的3D图形生成和显示应用程序包括一个创作模式屏幕，其中列出了要图形显示的数据库元素，以及与数据库元素相关的变量列表。 此外，应用程序呈现包括三个空间维度和时间中的每一个以及各种图形对象属性（诸如颜色，大小，旋转，不透明度，强度，纹理等）的图形属性的菜单。用户确定是否 图形对象是散点图的球，条形图的条形图，饼图的饼形元素或其他3D表示。 通过单击变量列表中的数据库变量并将其拖动到属性菜单上的属性上，用户可以将数据库变量与图形属性相关联。 当用户将变量与图形属性相关联时，相关性由与属性菜单一起显示的图例指示。 图形显示在具有图形属性的动画3D呈现中，包括其随时间的运动，由与属性相关联的数据库变量确定。