A Fast Real-Time Rendering Method of 3D Terrain

Author

Yin, Guisheng ; Wang, Hailing ; Zhang, Jing ; Wang, Jian ; Wang, Hongtao

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Harbin Eng. Univ. HEU, Harbin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper, a new method for real-time rendering of three-dimensional terrain is proposed. The method combines together several methods such as block data, view-dependent multi-resolution LOD, view frustum culling etc. It exploits a new method to measure the terrain curvature. The new method uses multiple-approach to simplify terrain model and reduce the cost of memory, which can improve efficient terrain rendering. In addition, a terrain rendering system based on this method is implemented, and experiment demonstrates that the method can be fast for rendering terrain and get higher effectiveness.

Keywords

real-time systems; rendering (computer graphics); terrain mapping; 3D terrain; real-time rendering; terrain curvature; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer science; Computer simulation; Costs; Educational institutions; Military computing; Multiresolution analysis; Rendering (computer graphics); Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2009. CiSE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4507-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4507-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISE.2009.5364124

Filename

5364124