A method and a display are disclosed for displaying virtual visual information within a user's view of a real world environment. The display is a transparent display through which real-world information can be viewed. The method according to the present invention comprises the step of displaying, based on digital data, a virtual visual object on the display in order to make visual information visible on the display, which visual information is the aggregate of the virtual visual object and the real-world information visible through display. The digital data is received by an information receiving means comprised by the display from a communications network or a local storage device.

Selecting an obscured object of a computer-generated model consisting of a plurality of objects displayed on a computer screen includes receiving input data interpreted as an instruction to change a visibility characteristic of a first one of the plurality of objects (the first one of the objects obscuring another of the objects, and the first object being determined based on the location of an on-screen cursor), and modifying a visibility characteristic of the first object to cause another one of the objects to become discernable and selectable.

A method of efficiently creating an animation image data file is provided. Components of a device are modeled using a 3-D CAD system and filed. After file format conversion, the file is imported to application software for animation. The components are then assembled, a camera angle is selected, and the transparency of the components is specified. A video file is created and included in an HTML file which is a completed animation data file. A clear perspective of the device comprising complicated components can be obtained because some components created with 3-D CAD system are rendered transparent using the application software for animation.

An apparatus for processing an image has a texture rendering unit (306) for storing a texture image (208) in a texture rendering area (34a) of an image memory (34), an image rendering unit (310) for storing a polygon (206) in a display rendering area (34b) of the image memory (34) based on at least the texture image (208), and mapping the texture image (208) onto the polygon (206), a texture moving unit (314) for moving the texture image (208) stored in the texture rendering area (34a) in an arbitrary direction and restoring the moved texture image (208) in the texture rendering area (34a), and a texture mapping unit (316) for mapping the moved texture image (208) onto the polygon (206) stored in the display rendering area (34b).