Real-time, continuous level of detail rendering of height fields

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 109-118

  Lindstrom, Peter ^a   Koller, David ^a   Ribarsky, William ^a   Hodges, Larry F ^a   Faust, Nick ^b   Turner, Gregory A ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Simulation Technology Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MESH GENERATION;

CONTINUOUS LEVEL OF DETAIL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; HIGH COMPLEXITY; HIGH IMAGE QUALITY; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; LEVEL OF DETAIL; MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF; POLYGONAL SURFACE;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 85031043360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/237170.237217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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