Interactive GPU-based procedural heightfield brushes

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 55-62

  De Carpentier, Giliam J P ^a   Bidarra, Rafael ^b  

^a W Games   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GPGPU; Graphics hardware; Heightfields; Procedural synthesis; Shader programming; Terrain modeling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GENERATION; BLEND MODES; EXECUTION SPEED; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; HARDWARE RESTRICTIONS; INTERACTIVE RATES; LOCAL CONTROL; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETERIZED; PIPELINE IMPLEMENTATION; PROCESSING POWER; SEAMLESS TRANSITION; SHADER PROGRAMMING; TERRAIN MODELING; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

ALGORITHMS; BRUSHES; COMPLEXATION; HARDWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LANDFORMS; PIPELINES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 77953608054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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