Fast Walkthroughs with Image Caches and Ray Casting

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• Publication Type: Journal Paper (without talk)
• ISSN: 0097-8493
• Month: December

@article\{Wimmer-1999-FWIb,
  title =      "Fast Walkthroughs with Image Caches and Ray Casting",
  author =     "Michael Wimmer and Markus Giegl and Dieter Schmalstieg",
  year =       "1999",
  abstract =   "We present an output-sensitive rendering algorithm for
               accelerating walkthroughs of large, densely occluded virtual
               environments using a multi-stage Image Based Rendering
               Pipeline. In the first stage, objects within a certain
               distance are rendered using the traditional graphics
               pipeline, whereas the remaining scene is rendered by a
               pixel-based approach using an Image Cache, horizon
               estimation to avoid calculating sky pixels, and finally, ray
               casting. The time complexity of this approach does not
               depend on the total number of primitives in the scene. We
               have measured speedups of up to one oder of magnitude.",
  pages =      "831--838",
  month =      dec,
  number =     "6",
  issn =       "0097-8493",
  journal =    "Computers and Graphics",
  volume =     "23",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/1999/Wimmer-1999-FWIb/",
}