Bentley Systems, Incorporated
CONVERSION OF INFRASTRUCTURE MODEL GEOMETRY TO A TILE FORMAT

Abstract:

In example embodiments, techniques are provided for converting geometry of an infrastructure model represented as high-level geometric primitives having a given symbology to low-level primitives, and encoding these low-level primitives into tile contents suited for transmission, and ultimately display upon, on a client device. An architectural split between frontend applications and backend applications may allow conversion of the high level primitives to be performed remote from the client devices by backend applications. Backend applications may be executed on robust hardware devices that execute software in a multi-threaded environment on powerful CPUs. By performing CPU-intensive operations on backend applications, frontend applications on client devices may be required to do little more than submit low-level primitives for rendering on their GPU.