Fitted BVH for fast raytracing of metaballs

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 281-288

  Gourmel, Olivier ^a   Pajot, Anthony ^a   Paulin, Mathias ^a   Barthe, Loïc ^a   Poulin, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

I.3.5 Computer Graphics : Computational Geometry and Object Modeling Curve surface solid and object representations; I.3.7 Computer Graphics : Three Dimensional Graphics and Realism Raytracing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ACCELERATION STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY AND OBJECT MODELING; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; I.3.7 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICS AND REALISM - RAYTRACING; REAL TIME; SOFT OBJECTS; SOFT SHADOW; VISUAL EFFECTS;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 77952865291     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01597.x     Document Type: Article

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