Terrain decimation through quadtree morphing

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 62-69

  Cline, David ^b   Egbert, Parris K ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Sterling Wentworth Corp   (United States)

^c 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomorph; Polygon decimation; Terrain rendering

Indexed keywords

POLYGON DECIMATION; QUADTREE MORPHING; TERRAIN RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOLOGY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0035029464     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.910822     Document Type: Article

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