Isocube: Exploiting the cubemap hardware

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 720-731

  Wan, Liang ^b   Wong, Tien Tsin ^a,b   Leung, Chi Sing ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anisotropic filtering; Cubemap; Equal solid angle; Isocube; Sampling on sphere

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SAMPLING;

ANISOTROPIC FILTERING; CUBEMAP; GPU; ISOCUBE; SOLID ANGLE;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34447500713     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.1020     Document Type: Article

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