Seamless patches for GPU-based terrain rendering

Visual Computer

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-208

  Livny, Yotam ^a   Kogan, Zvi ^a   El Sana, Jihad ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hardware acceleration; Level of detail rendering; Terrain visualization; View dependent rendering

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; MEDICAL IMAGING; VISUALIZATION;

BOUNDARY EDGES; DATA-SETS; GRAPHICS HARDWARES; HARDWARE ACCELERATION; HIGH FRAME RATES; INTERACTIVE RENDERINGS; LEVEL OF DETAILS; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL RENDERING; LEVELS OF DETAILS; QUALITY IMAGES; RECTANGULAR PATCHES; RUN-TIME; SEAMLESS TRANSITIONS; TERRAIN RENDERINGS; TERRAIN VISUALIZATION; VIEW-DEPENDENT RENDERING;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 59949086525     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-008-0214-3     Document Type: Article

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