Interactive rendering of large unstructured grids using dynamic level-of-detail

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 26-

  Callahan, Steven P ^a   Comba, João L D ^b   Shirley, Peter ^c   Silva, Claudio T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive volume rendering; Level of detail; Multiresolution meshes; Tetrahedral meshes

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS HARDWARE (GPU); INTERACTIVE VOLUME RENDERING; MULTIRESOLUTION MESHES; TOPOLOGICAL INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749451342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

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