Synthetic three-d display

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR SYNTHESIZING A STEREO DISPLAY FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DEFINED BY DATA POINTS LOCATED IN CARTESIAN COORDINATES XYZ COMPRISING: AN X-Y DISPLAY PLANE; A DATA SOURCE FOR SUPPLYING THE XYZ COORDINATES OF POINTS BEING DISPLAYED; POSITIONING MEANS FOR POSITIONING THE LEFT AND RIGHT VANISHING POINTS ON SAID DISPLAY PLANE; FIRST CALCULATING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID DATA SOURCE AND SAID POSITIONING MEANS FOR CALCULATING THE RIGHT AND LEFT LINE-OF-SIGHT X-Y DISTANCES FROM THE RIGHT AND LEFT VANISHING POINTS TO A DATA POINT; SECOND CALCULATING MEANS FOR CALCULATING A DEPTH PERSPECTIVE RATIO Z/Z+Z WHERE Z IS THE DISTANCE ALONG EITHER VANISHING LINE FROM AN EFFECTIVE VIEWING POINT TO SAID DISPLAY PLANE AND Z IS THE DEPTH COORDINATE OF THE DATA POINT; MULTIPLYING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND CALCULATING MEANS FOR MULTIPLYING THE RIGHT AND LEFT LINE-OF-SIGHT X-Y DISTANCES BY THE DEPTH PERSPECTIVE RATIO TO OBTAIN RIGHT AND LEFT APPORTIONED DISTANCES; FIRST ADDING MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID MULTIPLYING MEANS FOR ADDING THE LEFT X-Y APPORTIONED DISTANCES TO THE X-Y COORDINATES OF THE LEFT VANISHING POINT RESPECTIVELY TO OBTAIN THE X-Y COORDINATES OF A LEFT POINT REPRESENTING THE LEFT VIEW OF THE DATA POINT ON SAID DISPLAY PLANE;