Planetary-scale terrain composition

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 719-733

  Kooima, Robert ^a   Leigh, Jason ^a   Johnson, Andrew ^a   Roberts, Doug ^b   Subbarao, Mark ^b   Defanti, Thomas A ^c  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GPGPU; GPU; Level of detail; Render to vertex buffer; Terrain visualization

Indexed keywords

GPGPU; GPU; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL; RENDER-TO-VERTEX-BUFFER; TERRAIN VISUALIZATION;

BLENDING; DATA VISUALIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SET THEORY; VISUALIZATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 68549133151     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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