Ray-casted blockMaps for large Urban models visualization

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 405-413

  Cignoni, P ^a   Di Benedetto, M ^a   Ganovelli, F ^a   Gobbetti, E ^b   Marton, F ^b   Scopigno, R ^a  

^a ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^b Visual Computing Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISIBILITY; VISUALIZATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT;

BLOCKMAPS; CITIES; CITY EXPLORATION; DISCRETE REPRESENTATION; URBAN MODELS; EFFICIENT ENCODING; GRAPHICS PLATFORMS; HIERARCHICAL DATA STRUCTURE; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE; INTERACTIVE RENDERING; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

RAY TRACING; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 35349006987     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01063.x     Document Type: Article

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