Occluder shadows for fast walkthroughs of urban environments

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Wonka, Peter ^a   Schmalstieg, Dieter ^b  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

FAST OCCLUSION CULLING;

ANTI-ALIASING;

EID: 0032685551     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00327     Document Type: Article

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