Method and system for antialiased procedural solid texturing

This invention relates generally to the field of computer graphics, and more particularly to antialiasing parameterized procedural solid textures in a computer graphics system. A procedural solid texturing system which uses a parameterized function capable of reproducing the most common procedural solid textures, specifically wood, marble, clouds and fire (). This model is simple enough to be implemented in hardware, and can be realized in VLSI with as little as 100,000 gates. The invention also includes a method for antialiasing the parameterized procedural textures (). The antialiasing includes an expression for the necessary box filter width, a technique for efficiently box filtering the procedural texture by either MIP mapping the color table or using a summed area color table ().