Efficient impostor manipulation for real-time visualization of urban scenery

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Sillion, François ^a   Drettakis, George ^a   Bodelet, Benoit ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Image caching; Image based rendering; Impostors; Urban scenes; Visualization of large datasets

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; URBAN SCENES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0031553027     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00158     Document Type: Article

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