A GPU persistent grid mapping for terrain rendering

Visual Computer

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-153

  Livny, Yotam ^a   Sokolovsky, Neta ^a   Grinshpoun, Tal ^a   El Sana, Jihad ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Graphics processors; Multiresolution hierarchies; Terrain rendering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MESH GENERATION; RAY TRACING;

COLOR MAPS; GRAPHICS PROCESSORS; MULTIRESOLUTION HIERARCHIES; PERSISTENT GRID MAPPING; TERRAIN RENDERING; VISUAL ARTIFACTS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 38349128854     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-007-0180-1     Document Type: Article

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