Out-of-core real-time visualization of massive 3D point clouds

Proceedings of AFRIGRAPH 2010: 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 121-128

  Richter, Rico ^a   Döllner, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D point clouds; LiDAR; Out of core visualization; Point based rendering

Indexed keywords

3D POINT CLOUD; HARDWARE RESOURCES; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; MEMORY SIZE; OUT-OF-CORE; OUT-OF-CORE VISUALIZATION; PC HARDWARE; POINT-BASED RENDERING; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DATA STRUCTURE; USER INTERACTION;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; DATA VISUALIZATION; OPTICAL RADAR; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77955099238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1811158.1811178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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