Abstract: A method and surgical system including a laser source for generating a pulsed laser beam, an imaging system including a detector, shared optics configured for directing the pulsed laser beam to an object to be sampled and confocally deflecting back-reflected light from the object to the detector, a patient interface, through which the pulsed laser beam is directed, the patient interface having, a cup with a large and small opening, and a notched ring inside the cup; and a controller operatively coupled to the laser source, the imaging system and the shared optics, the controller configured to align the eye for procedure.

Abstract: A method of the invention includes the steps of selecting at least a portion of an image on which to superimpose a texture and segmenting that portion of the image into a plurality of clusters. Each of the clusters is then parameterized with texture coordinates, and texture is assigned to each of the clusters using the texture coordinates to result in a texture patch. The texture patches are then blended together. This exemplary method of the invention has the result of the texture patches appearing to adopt the surface undulations of the underlying surface.

Abstract: 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 (32). 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 (34, 36). 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 (38).