GigaWalk: Interactive walkthrough of complex environments

Eurographics Workshop on Rendering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 203-214

  Baxter III, William V ^a   Sud, Avneesh ^a   Govindaraju, Naga K ^a   Manocha, Dinesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering Visualization; Interactive display systems; Levels of detail; Occlusion culling; Parallel rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PIPELINES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

INTERACTIVE DISPLAY SYSTEMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036986475     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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