Maximum mipmaps for fast, accurate, and scalable dynamic height field rendering

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, I3D 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 183-190

  Tevs, Art ^a   Ihrke, Ivo ^a   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Displacement mapping; GPU; Graphics hardware; Height field intersection; Real time rendering; Simplification level of detail; Spatial data structures; Surface details; Texturing techniques

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT MAPPING; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HEIGHT FIELDS; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SIMPLIFICATION/LEVEL OF DETAIL; SPATIAL DATA STRUCTURE; SURFACE DETAILS; TEXTURING TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; TEXTURING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77950417015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1342250.1342279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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