Creation and control of real-time continuous level of detail on programmable graphics hardware

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-48

  Southern, Richard ^a   Gain, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS HARDWARE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0037354529     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.t01-1-00644     Document Type: Article

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