EFFICIENT RENDERING OF HIGH-DETAILED OBJECTS USING A REDUCED MULTI-RESOLUTION HIERARCHY

Mathias Holst, Heidrun Schumann

2006

Abstract

In the field of view-dependant continuous level of detail of triangle-meshes it is often necessary to extract the current LOD triangle by triangle. Thus, triangle strips are only of very limited use, or only usable with a high effort. In this work a method is proposed that allows a stepwise reduction of a great, fine stepped LOD hierarchy by merging nodes. The result of this process is a reduced hierarchy, which allows the extraction of many neighboring static triangles in one step, so that triangle strips are applicable more efficiently. We show that this results in a significant decimation of processed vertices without loosing a smooth LOD transition.

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Holst M. and Schumann H. (2006). EFFICIENT RENDERING OF HIGH-DETAILED OBJECTS USING A REDUCED MULTI-RESOLUTION HIERARCHY . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 972-8865-39-2, pages 3-10. DOI: 10.5220/0001351100030010


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp06,
author={Mathias Holst and Heidrun Schumann},
title={EFFICIENT RENDERING OF HIGH-DETAILED OBJECTS USING A REDUCED MULTI-RESOLUTION HIERARCHY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={3-10},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001351100030010},
isbn={972-8865-39-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,
TI - EFFICIENT RENDERING OF HIGH-DETAILED OBJECTS USING A REDUCED MULTI-RESOLUTION HIERARCHY
SN - 972-8865-39-2
AU - Holst M.
AU - Schumann H.
PY - 2006
SP - 3
EP - 10
DO - 10.5220/0001351100030010