Adaptive solid texturing for web graphics

Solid texturing [Peachey 1985; Perlin 1985] has become a well-known computer graphics technology since it was first presented more than fifteen years ago. However, solid texturing still remains problems today, because it consumes too much time and has a very high memory requirement. Although some methods have recently been proposed to solve these problems, almost all of them need the support of hardware accelerators. Hence, these methods could not be applied to all kinds of machines, especially the low-cost ones available over the Internet. Therefore, we present a new method for procedural solid texturing in this paper. Our approach could almost render an object with procedural solid texturing in real-time using only a software solution. The basic idea of this approach is similar to the cache mechanism used for main memory control. Furthermore, to demonstrate that our approach is widely applicable we choose pure Java for it's implementation, since this could not receive any benefit from the hardware and could be executed on the Internet directly.