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VISUALIZATION
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Rendering The First Star In The Universe - A Case Study
For quantitative examination of phenomena that simultaneously occur on very different spatial and temporal scales, adaptive hierarchical schemes are required. A special numerical ...
Ralf Kähler, Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stu...
VISUALIZATION
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
PMR: Point to Mesh Rendering, A Feature-Based Approach
Within the field of computer graphics and visualization, it is often necessary to visualize polygonal models with large number of polygons. Display quality is mandatory, but it i...
Tamal K. Dey, James Hudson
SIBGRAPI
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Dynamic Scene Occlusion Culling Using a Regular Grid
We present an output-sensitive occlusion culling algorithm for densely occluded dynamic scenes where both the viewpoint and objects move arbitrarily. Our method works on a regular ...
Harlen Costa Batagelo, Shin-Ting Wu
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Simple Approach to Interactive Free-Form Shape Deformations
In this paper, we propose a set of free-form shape deformation techniques. The basic approach can be described as follows. Given a surface represented by a mesh and a control poin...
Shin Yoshizawa, Alexander G. Belyaev, Hans-Peter S...
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the Effects of Haptic Display in Brush and Ink Simulation for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy
In this paper, we develop an interactive haptic system, which can be further aid for digital Chinese painting. When an artist is holding our force feedback device, one feels like ...
Jeng-Sheng Yeh, Ting-yu Lien, Ming Ouhyoung
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Real-Time Consensus-Based Scene Reconstruction Using Commodity Graphics Hardware
We present a novel use of commodity graphics hardware that effectively combines a plane-sweeping algorithm with view synthesis for real-time, on-line 3D scene acquisition and view...
Ruigang Yang, Greg Welch, Gary Bishop
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Interactive Visualization of Non-Manifold Implicit Surfaces Using Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering
We present an interactive method of visualizing both manifold and non-manifold implicit surfaces. The implicit surfaces are directly visualized at interactive frame rates independ...
Shuntaro Yamazaki, Kiwamu Kase, Katsushi Ikeuchi
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A Physics-Based Framework for Subdivision Surface Design with Automatic Rules Control
The recent non-uniform subdivision approach extends traditional uniform subdivision schemes with variable rules, offering additional shape parameters (such as knot spacings) for f...
Hui Xie, Hong Qin
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
3D Video Recorder
We present the 3D Video Recorder, a system capable of recording, processing, and playing three–dimensional video from multiple points of view. We first record 2D video streams f...
Stephan Würmlin, Edouard Lamboray, Oliver G. ...
PG
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Estimation of Multiple Directional Light Sources for Synthesis of Mixed Reality Images
We present a new method for the detection and estimation of multiple directional illuminants, using a single image of any object with known geometry and Lambertian reflectance. W...
Yang Wang, Dimitris Samaras