Streaming HLODs: An out-of-core viewer for network visualization of huge polygon models

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-50

  Guthe, M ^a   Klein, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compression (coding); Distributed network graphics; Viewing algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA TRANSFER; IMAGE COMPRESSION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED GRAPHICS; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; STREAMING TRANSMISSION; VERTEX SPLIT OPERATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0346639326     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2003.10.016     Document Type: Article

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