Terrain simplification simplified: A general framework for view-dependent out-of-core visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-254

  Lindstrom, Peter ^a,b   Pascucci, Valerio ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous levels of detail; Data layouts; Edge bisection; Error metrics; External memory paging; Geomorphing; Out of core algorithms; Surface simplification; Terrain visualization; View dependent refinement

Indexed keywords

DATA LAYOUTS;

ALGORITHMS; CACHE MEMORY; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0036650062     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2002.1021577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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