Semi-uniform, 2-different tessellation of triangular parametric surfaces

Ashish Amresh, Christoph Fünfzig

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Abstract

With a greater number of real-time graphics applications moving over to parametric surfaces from the polygonal domain, there is an inherent need to address various rendering bottlenecks that could hamper the move. Scaling the polygon count over various hardware platforms becomes an important factor. Much control is needed over the tessellation levels, either imposed by the hardware limitations or by the application. Developers like to create applications that run on various platforms without having to switch between polygonal and parametric versions to satisfy the limitations. In this paper, we present SD-2 (Semi-uniform, 2-Different), an adaptive tessellation algorithm for triangular parametric surfaces. The algorithm produces well distributed and semi-uniformly shaped triangles as a result of the tessellation. The SD-2 pattern requires new approaches for determining the edge tessellation factors, which can be fractional and change continuously depending on view parameters. The factors are then used to steer the tessellation of the parametric surface into a collection of triangle strips in a single pass. We compare the tessellation results in terms of GPU performance and surface quality by implementing SD-2 on PN patches.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Visual Computing - 6th International Symposium, ISVC 2010, Proceedings
Pages54-63
Number of pages10
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event6th International, Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2010 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: Nov 29 2010Dec 1 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 1
Volume6453 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other6th International, Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period11/29/1012/1/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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