MMR

Daniel Aliaga, Rui Bastos, Mary Whitton, Fred Brooks, Dinesh Manocha, Jon Cohen, Andrew Wilson, Eric Baker, Hansong Zhang, Carl Erikson, Kenny Hoff, Tom Hudson (+1 others)
1999 Proceedings of the 1999 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics - SI3D '99  
We present a system for rendering very complex 3D models at interactive rates. We select a subset of the model as preferred viewpoints and partition the space into virtual cells. Each cell contains near geometry, rendered using levels of detail and visibility culling, and far geometry, rendered as a textured depth mesh. Our system automatically balances the screen-space errors resulting from geometric simplification with those from textureddepth-mesh distortion. We describe our prefetching and
more » ... ata management schemes, both crucial for models significantly larger than available system memory. We have successfully used our system to accelerate walkthroughs of a 13 million triangle model of a large coal-fired power plant and of a 1.7 million triangle architectural model. We demonstrate the walkthrough of a 1.3 GB power plant model with a 140 MB cache footprint.
doi:10.1145/300523.300554 dblp:conf/si3d/AliagaCWBZEHHSBWBM99 fatcat:zt37oxrhg5axljfsgvjwt7glg4