Gamito, M.N. and Maddock, S.C. (2007) Progressive refinement rendering of implicit surfaces. Computers & Graphics, 31 (5). pp. 698-709. ISSN 0097-8493
Abstract
The visualisation of implicit surfaces can be an inefficient task when such surfaces are complex and highly detailed. Visualising a surface by first converting it to a polygon mesh may lead to an excessive polygon count. Visualising a surface by direct ray casting is often a slow procedure. In this paper we present a progressive refinement renderer for implicit surfaces that are Lipschitz continuous. The renderer first displays a low resolution estimate of what the final image is going to be and, as the computation progresses, increases the quality of this estimate at an interactive frame rate. This renderer provides a quick previewing facility that significantly reduces the design cycle of a new and complex implicit surface. The renderer is also capable of completing an image faster than a conventional implicit surface rendering algorithm based on ray casting.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2007 Elsevier B.V. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Computers & Graphics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Sherpa Assistant |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2008 10:43 |
Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2013 16:55 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2007.04.011 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cag.2007.04.011 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:3553 |