Real-time visualization of large textured terrains

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we present a framework for real-time rendering of large scale terrains with texture maps larger than what the graphics hardware can display in a single texture. The presented system is compact and efficient, yet very simple and easy to implement.

REFERENCES

• 1: Ulf Assarsson , Tomas Möller, Optimized view frustum culling algorithms for bounding boxes, Journal of Graphics Tools, v.5 n.1, p.9-22, Sept. 2000
• 2: Cignoni, P., Ganovelli, F., Gobbetti, E., Marton, F., Ponchio, F., and Scopigno, R. 2003. BDAM --- Batched Dynamic Adaptive Meshes for high performance terrain visualization. Computer Graphics Forum 22, 3 (Sept.), 505--514.
• 3: De Boer, W. H., 2000. Fast terrain rendering using geometrical mipmapping. http://www.flipcode.com/articles/article_-geomipmaps.pdf.
• 4: Jürgen Döllner , Konstantin Baumman , Klaus Hinrichs, Texturing techniques for terrain visualization, Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '00, p.227-234, October 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
• 5: Mark Duchaineau , Murray Wolinsky , David E. Sigeti , Mark C. Miller , Charles Aldrich , Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein, ROAMing terrain: real-time optimally adapting meshes, Proceedings of the 8th conference on Visualization '97, p.81-88, October 18-24, 1997, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• 6: Eberly, D. H. 2000. 3D Game Engine Design. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1558605932.
• 7: Hugues Hoppe, Smooth view-dependent level-of-detail control and its application to terrain rendering, Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '98, p.35-42, October 18-23, 1998, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States
• 8: Wei Hua , Huaisheng Zhang , Yanqing Lu , Hujun Bao , Qunsheng Peng, Huge texture mapping for real-time visualization of large-scale terrain, Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, November 10-12, 2004, Hong Kong [doi>10.1145/1077534.1077564]
• 9: Larsen, B. D., and Christensen, N. J. 2003. Real-time terrain rendering using smooth hardware optimized level of detail. In Journal of WSCG, Vol.11, No.1, EuroGraphics.
• 10: Joshua Levenberg, Fast view-dependent level-of-detail rendering using cached geometry, Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02, October 27-November 01, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts
• 11: Peter Lindstrom , Valerio Pascucci, Terrain Simplification Simplified: A General Framework for View-Dependent Out-of-Core Visualization, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, v.8 n.3, p.239-254, July 2002 [doi>10.1109/TVCG.2002.1021577 ]
• 12: Frank Losasso , Hugues Hoppe, Geometry clipmaps: terrain rendering using nested regular grids, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.23 n.3, August 2004
• 13: Christopher C. Tanner , Christopher J. Migdal , Michael T. Jones, The clipmap: a virtual mipmap, Proceedings of the 25th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, p.151-158, July 1998 [doi>10.1145/280814.280855]

INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
level of detail, terrain rendering, texturing