Ellipsoidal Clipmaps - A planet-sized terrain rendering algorithm

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-61

  Dimitrijević, Aleksandar M ^a   Rančić, Dejan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Clipmaps; Level of detail; Out of core; Rendering; Terrain

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EARTH (PLANET); LANDFORMS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); TEXTURES;

CLIPMAPS; LEVEL OF DETAIL; OUT-OF-CORE; RENDERING; TERRAIN;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84937839464     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2015.06.006     Document Type: Article

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