Automatic impostor placement for guaranteed frame rates and low memory requirements

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 103-110

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

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

FRAME RATES; IMPOSTERS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 29244491152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1053427.1053444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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