Generalized Image Acquisition and Analysis
Maximum Mipmaps for Fast, Accurate, and Scalable Dynamic Height Field Rendering
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 for dynamic height fields employ approximate ray-height field intersection methods, whereas accurate algorithms require pre-computation in the order of seconds to minutes and are thus not suitable for dynamic height field rendering. We alleviate this problem by using maximum mipmaps, a hierarchical data structure supporting accurate and efficient rendering while simultaneously lowering the pre-computation costs to negligible levels. Furthermore, maximum mipmaps allow for view-dependent level-of-detail rendering. In combination with hierarchical ray-stepping this results in an efficient intersection algorithm for large scale height fields.

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In the press

2011-09-28
Johannes Kepler University Linz is reporting about our E-Lecture on Computational Photography last summer term. It was the first remote-only lecture for JKU. Eleven students attended the course at JKU.

In the press

2011-07-27
Our work on dynamically displaying BRDFs is going to be featured in the September issue of 3D World, a magazine for 3D artists, covering SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technologies where we will demo our work. Matthias Hullin is quoted as "I don't expect a BRDF display to become available in the next 20 years. The principle on which the Nintendo 3DS is based was patented back in 1913!"

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2011-04-27
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