ADAPTIVE LEVEL OF DETAIL WITH OCCLUSION CULLING

Hermann Birkholz, Stefan Rahn

2006

Abstract

Many techniques have been developed in order to accelerate the visualization of large triangle meshes. Level of Detail techniques can be used to create view-dependent approximations of wide range scenes with low occlusion, such as landscapes. For highly occluded scenes there exist many occlusion culling techniques, which discard occluded parts of the scene before rendering. This can drastically speed up the visualization of such scenes but will not improve rendering of wide non-occluded scenes. In this paper we will combine both acceleration methods. We present a new approach, which combines the benefits of Level of Detail rendering and of Occlusion Culling, in order to minimize their drawbacks. The technique adds occlusion as a view-dependence criterion for Level of Detail rendering and is even able to optimize the refinement of self occluding meshes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Birkholz H. and Rahn S. (2006). ADAPTIVE LEVEL OF DETAIL WITH OCCLUSION CULLING . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, ISBN 972-8865-39-2, pages 279-284. DOI: 10.5220/0001351302790284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp06,
author={Hermann Birkholz and Stefan Rahn},
title={ADAPTIVE LEVEL OF DETAIL WITH OCCLUSION CULLING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP,},
year={2006},
pages={279-284},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001351302790284},
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 - ADAPTIVE LEVEL OF DETAIL WITH OCCLUSION CULLING
SN - 972-8865-39-2
AU - Birkholz H.
AU - Rahn S.
PY - 2006
SP - 279
EP - 284
DO - 10.5220/0001351302790284