Time-critical rendering of irregular grids

Brazilian Symposium of Computer Graphic and Image Processing

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 243-250

  Farias, Ricardo ^a   Mitchell, Joseph S B ^a   Silva, Cláudio T ^b   Wylie, Brian ^c  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA HANDLING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION;

APPROXIMATION METHODS; ASSEMBLED ALGORITHM; HIERARCHICAL REPRESENTATION; IMAGE GENERATIONS; REAL TIME ANALYSIS; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; TIME-CRITICAL RENDERING; VERY LARGE DATUM;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 84949956015     PISSN: 15301834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIBGRA.2000.883919     Document Type: Conference Paper

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