Relief texture mapping

ABSTRACT

We present an extension to texture mapping that supports the representation of 3-D surface details and view motion parallax. The results are correct for viewpoints that are static or moving, far away or nearby. Our approach is very simple: a relief texture (texture extended with an orthogonal displacement per texel) is mapped onto a polygon using a two-step process: First, it is converted into an ordinary texture using a surprisingly simple 1-D forward transform. The resulting texture is then mapped onto the polygon using standard texture mapping. The 1-D warping functions work in texture coordinates to handle the parallax and visibility changes that result from the 3-D shape of the displacement surface. The subsequent texture-mapping operation handles the transformation from texture to screen coordinates.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
        I.2.10 Vision and Scene Understanding
            Subjects: Texture
  I.3 COMPUTER GRAPHICS
  I.4 IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION
      I.4.7 Feature Measurement
          Subjects: Texture
      I.4.8 Scene Analysis
          Subjects: Range data

General Terms:
Design, Measurement, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
image-based rendering, range images, rendering, texture mapping