Hierarchical Z-buffer visibility

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 231-237

  Greene, Ned ^a   Kassy, Michael ^a   Millery, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Octree; Pyramid; Spatial Coherence; Temporal Coherence; Z Buffer

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; GEOMETRY; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); VISIBILITY;

OCTREE; PYRAMID; SPATIAL COHERENCE; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; Z-BUFFER;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84945372994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/166117.166147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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