Feature-adaptive GPU rendering of Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nießner, Matthias ^a   Loop, Charles ^b   Meyer, Mark ^c   Derose, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Pixar Animation Studios ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Catmull Clark subdivision surfaces; Subdivision surfaces

Indexed keywords

CATMULL-CLARK SUBDIVISION SURFACES; CRACK FREE; EXACT METHODS; GPU RENDERING; GPU-BASED RENDERING; LEVEL-OF-DETAIL; LIMIT SURFACE; MACHINE PRECISION; RENDERMAN; SUBDIVISION SURFACES; VIEW-DEPENDENT;

ALGORITHMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84858145062     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2077341.2077347     Document Type: Article

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