Interactive Smooth and Curved Shell Mapping

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Date (from): 25.6.2007
• Date (to): 27.6.2007
• Editor: Jan Kautz and Sumanta Pattanaik
• ISBN: 978-3-905673-52-4
• Lecturer: Stefan Jeschke
• Location: Grenoble, France
• Organization: Eurographics
• Pages: 10
• Publisher: Eurographics Association
• Keywords: Display algorithms, Shading

@inproceedings\{JESCHKE-2007-ISC,
  title =      "Interactive Smooth and Curved Shell Mapping",
  author =     "Stefan Jeschke and Stephan Mantler and Michael Wimmer",
  year =       "2007",
  abstract =   "Shell mapping is a technique to represent three-dimensional
               surface details. This is achieved by extruding the triangles
               of an existing mesh along their normals, and mapping a 3D
               function (e.g., a 3D texture) into the resulting prisms.
               Unfortunately, such a mapping is nonlinear. Previous
               approaches perform a piece-wise linear approximation by
               subdividing the prisms into tetrahedrons. However, such an
               approximation often leads to severe artifacts. In this paper
               we present a correct (i.e., smooth) mapping that does not
               rely on a decomposition into tetrahedrons. We present an
               efficient GPU ray casting algorithm which provides correct
               parallax, self-occlusion, and silhouettes, at the cost of
               longer rendering times. The new formulation also allows
               modeling shells with smooth curvatures using Coons patches
               within the prisms. Tangent continuity between adjacent
               prisms is guaranteed, while the mapping itself remains
               local, i.e. every curved prism content is modeled at runtime
               in the GPU without the need for any precomputation. This
               allows instantly replacing animated triangular meshes with
               prism-based shells.",
  pages =      "351--360",
  month =      6,
  organization = "Eurographics",
  booktitle =  "Rendering Techniques 2007 (Proceedings Eurographics
               Symposium on Rendering)",
  editor =     "Jan Kautz and Sumanta Pattanaik",
  isbn =       "978-3-905673-52-4",
  pages =      "10",
  publisher =  "Eurographics Association",
  location =   "Grenoble, France",
  keywords =   "Display algorithms, Shading",
  URL =        "http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2007/JESCHKE-2007-ISC/",
}