Title
Efficient large-scale terrain rendering method for real-world game simulation
Abstract
Terrain modeling and rendering is essential in construction of realistic virtual environment, for interactive computer games application. Advanced high resolution scanning technologies such as LIDAR enable us to obtain dense and accurate irregular terrain dataset. However, unlike the regular sampled dataset such as DEM and DTED, irregular dataset cannot be rendered in real-time due to random distribution of samples. Moreover, because they generally have huge amount of point data, it is very hard to manipulate them in consumer PC. We propose a fast and efficient terrain rendering method using large-scale irregular dataset for computer games application. First, it reconstructs the geometry by converting irregular dataset into regular one, through resampling input data with regular interval considering the spatial distribution of sample points. It can generate animated scene by applying quad-tree based rendering method to converted dataset. Experimental results show that its image quality is not deteriorated in comparison to the result of rendering reconstructed geometric models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11736639_74
Edutainment
Keywords
Field
DocType
interactive computer games application,converted dataset,real-world game simulation,computer games application,regular interval,irregular dataset,point data,large-scale irregular dataset,accurate irregular terrain dataset,efficient large-scale terrain rendering,efficient terrain rendering method,terrain modeling,terrain rendering,virtual environment,image quality,high resolution,geometric model,real time
Computer graphics (images),Simulation,DTED,Computer science,Real-time rendering,Terrain,Terrain rendering,Rendering (computer graphics),Computer animation,Delaunay triangulation,Quadtree
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3942
0302-9743
3-540-33423-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.42
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dong-Soo Kang1194.13
Yunjin Kim229323.00
Byeong-Seok Shin313229.65