Ray tracing height fields

Proceedings of Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 202-207

  Qu, H ^a   Qiu, F ^a   Zhang, N ^a   Kaufman, A ^a   Wan, M ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Computer science; Hardware; Image quality; Image reconstruction; Pipelines; Ray tracing; Reconstruction algorithms; Rendering (computer graphics); Surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIPELINES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RASTERIZATION; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

ELEVATION DATA; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRID RENDERING; NOVEL SURFACES; PROCESSING POWER; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; RECTANGULAR GRIDS;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84943252647     PISSN: 15301052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGI.2003.1214467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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