Dynamic scene occlusion culling

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-29

  Sudarsky, Oded ^a   Gotsman, Craig ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ALIASING; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VIRTUAL REALITY;

OCCLUSION CULLING; TEMPORAL BOUNDING VOLUME (TBV);

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0032664932     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.764866     Document Type: Article

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