Realistic real-time rendering of landscapes using billboard clouds

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 507-516

  Behrendt, S ^a   Colditz, C ^a   Franzke, O ^b   Kopf, J ^a   Deussen, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TEXTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GAMES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

BILLBOARD CLOUDS; COMPUTER GAMES; LANDSCAPES; SHELL TEXTURES; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; PLANT MODEL; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 33745310055     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2005.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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