Layered environment-map impostors for arbitrary scenes

Proceedings - Graphics Interface

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1-8

  Jeschke, Stefan ^a   Wimmer, Michael ^a   Schumann, Heidrun ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environment maps; Image based rendering; Impostors; Virtual environments; Walkthroughs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; GEOMETRY; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

IMAGE-BASED RENDERING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036452953     PISSN: 07135424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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