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Fast Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces

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Rendering Techniques ’96 (EGSR 1996)

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Subdivision surfaces provide a curved surface representation that is useful in a number of applications, including modeling surfaces of arbitrary topological type, fitting scattered data, and geometric compression and automatic level-of-detail generation using wavelets. Subdivision surfaces also provide an attractive representation for fast rendering, since they can directly represent complex surfaces of arbitrary topology.

We present a method for subdivision surface triangulation that is fast, uses minimum memory, and is simpler in structure than a naive rendering method based on direct subdivision. These features make the algorithm amenable to implementation on both general purpose CPUs and dedicated geometry engine processors, allowing high rendering performance on appropriately equipped graphics hardware.

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  1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Kari Pulli

  2. SGI, USA

    Mark Segal

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  1. Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, University of Girona, Spain

    Xavier Pueyo

  2. Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

    Peter Schröder

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Pulli, K., Segal, M. (1996). Fast Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces. In: Pueyo, X., Schröder, P. (eds) Rendering Techniques ’96. EGSR 1996. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7484-5_7

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