Abstract: A method and apparatus creates a display of a scene having a plurality of object elements. One or more frame buffers are utilized in creating the display.

Abstract: A system for the storage, retrieval and manipulation of significantly large amounts of data to produce highly complex and visually pleasing graphics within the time constraint of a full motion video raster scanning system by storing memory data corresponding to each of the individual object elements to be displayed over a period of time, storing lists of identification and display instruction data with respect to those object elements, selecting desired identification and display instruction data for selected display elements appropriate to a particular instant of time and placing such selected data into an appropriate memory, and then creating, from those selected instructions and from the stored data relating to the selected object elements, display data which, in real time, produces the desired display. The initially stored identification and display instructions are preferably in the form of a linked list with the items in each list arranged in order of desired visible priority.

Abstract: A system for the storage, retrieval and manipulation of data for producing a display, in which inter alia, color availability is in the form of appropriately pre-selected palettes, three-dimensional or planar objects are composed of patterns or elements which are individually stored, the display image is made up in buffers which alternate as construction and display buffers by data accessed in memory by lists linking them in ascending order of visible priority, the data then being written into the buffers, the nature of the data storage varying in predetermined fashion for different types of objects, all so that highly complex and visually pleasing graphics can be displayed and manipulated within the time constraint of a full motion video raster scanning system.