Geometry Textures and Applications

Rodrigo de Toledo (1) , Bin Wang (2, 3) , Bruno Lévy (4)

1 Tecgraf - Tecnologia em Computação Gráfica - Computer Graphics Technology Group
2 THSS - School of Software
3 CAD - Computer Aided Design
4 ALICE - Geometry and Lighting

Geometry textures are a novel geometric representation for surfaces based on height maps. The visualization is done through a GPU ray casting algorithm applied to the whole object. At rendering time, the fine-scale details (mesostructures) are reconstructed preserving original quality. Visualizing surfaces with geometry textures allows a natural LOD behavior. There are numerous applications that can benefit from the use of geometry textures. In this paper, besides a mesostructure visualization survey, we present geometry textures with three possible applications: rendering of solid models, geological surfaces visualization and surface smoothing.

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Rodrigo de Toledo, Bin Wang, Bruno Lévy. Geometry Textures and Applications. Computer Graphics Forum, 2008, 27 (8), pp.2053-2065. ⟨10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01185.x⟩. ⟨inria-00331914⟩