Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

Level of detail (LOD) techniques are increasingly used by professional real-time developers
to strike the balance between breathtaking virtual worlds and smooth, flowing animation …

We present an elegant and simple to implement framework for performing out-of-core
visualization and view-dependent refinement of large terrain surfaces. Contrary to the trend …

We describe a general framework for out-of-core rendering and management of massive
terrain surfaces. The two key components of this framework are: view-dependent refinement …

This book is entirely about triangulations. With emphasis on computational issues, we
present the basic theory necessary to construct and manipulate triangulations. In particular …

The presence of design flaws in a software system has a negative impact on the quality of
the software, as they indicate violations of design practices and principles, which make a …

Level-of-detail rendering is essential for rendering very large, detailed worlds in real-time.
Unfortunately, level-of-detail computations can be expensive, creating a bottleneck at the …

This paper presents a GPU-based, fast, and accurate dynamic height field rendering
technique that scales well to large scale height fields. Current real-time rendering algorithms …

We present a LOD rendering technique for large, textured terrain, which is well-suited for
recent GPUs. In a preprocess, we tile the domain, and we compute for each tile a discrete …

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Computer Aided Facility Management-Systems
(CAFM) are currently undergoing the transition to storing and processing real 3D geospatial …