Hardware accelerated multi-resolution geometry synthesis

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 191-198

  Bokeloh, Martin ^a   Wand, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Games and GPUs; Graphics hardware; Large data sets; Multi resolution modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPHIC METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VECTORS; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME CONTROL;

GAMES AND GPUS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; LARGE DATA SETS; MULTI RESOLUTION MODELING; MULTI-RESOLUTION MODELING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 33748687370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1111411.1111446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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