A real-time photo-realistic visual flythrough

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-265

  Cohen Or, Daniel ^a   Rich, Eran ^a   Lerner, Uri ^a   Shenkar, Victor ^a  

^a Tiltan System Engineering   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flight simulator; Parallel rendering; Ray casting; Terrain visualization; Visual simulations; Voxel based modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

RAY CASTING; TERRAIN VISUALIZATION; VOXEL-BASED MODELLING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0030246368     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.537308     Document Type: Article

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