JGTOOLS
2006
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2006
We render tree foliage levels of detail (LODs) using a new adaptation of billboard clouds. Our contributions are a simple and efficient billboard cloud creation algorithm designed...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
In this appendix, we provide some details on the data structures used to cluster the intersection segments. Although the data structures are fairly classical (a heap, a grid and a...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Spherical harmonic transform plays an important role in research in shape description. Current computation methods involve expensive voxelization, and are prone to numerical error...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Poisson Disk sampling patterns are of interest to the graphics community because their blue-noise properties are desirable in sampling patterns for rendering, illumination, and ot...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
We present a graphics hardware implementation of the tangent-plane algorithm for computing the kth-order Voronoi diagram of a set of point sites in image space. Correct and effici...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
This paper addresses the problem of efficiently calculating shadows from environment maps in the context of ray-tracing. Since accurate rendering of shadows from environment maps ...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006
We propose a new hardware ray casting algorithm for unstructured meshes composed of tetrahedral cells. Our work builds on the technique published at IEEE Visualization 2003 by Wei...
JGTOOLS
2006
13 years 11 months ago
2006