Complex Skeletal Implicit Surfaces with Levels of Detail

Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of complex skeletal primitives such as subdivision curves and surfaces in implicit surface modeling. This paper presents a hierarchichal modeling system with an automatic levels of detail management for a simpler modeling with an accelerated rendering. We manage levels of detail with smooth transitions and tree optimizations speeding up visualization by an order of magnitude, which allows an interactive editing of the shapes. Keywords modeling, implicit surfaces, complex skeletal primitives, levels of detail, accelerated rendering.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WSCG
• Authors: Aurélien Barbier, Eric Galin, Samir Akkouche
• Keywords: Accelerated Rendering, Complex Skeletal Primitives, Implicit Surface Modeling, WSCG 2004