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Parallel view-dependent refinement of progressive meshes

Liang Hu, Pedro V. Sander, Hugues Hoppe
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
In I3D ’09: Proceedings of the 2009 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games (2009), pp. 169-176.

@conference{hu2009parallel,

   title={Parallel view-dependent refinement of progressive meshes},

   author={Hu, L. and Sander, P.V. and Hoppe, H.},

   booktitle={Proceedings of the 2009 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games},

   pages={169–176},

   year={2009},

   organization={ACM}

}

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We present a scheme for view-dependent level-of-detail control that is implemented entirely on programmable graphics hardware. Our scheme selectively refines and coarsens an arbitrary triangle mesh at the granularity of individual vertices, to create meshes that are highly adapted to dynamic view parameters. Such fine-grain control has previously been demonstrated using sequential CPU algorithms. However, these algorithms involve pointer-based structures with intricate dependencies that cannot be handled efficiently within the restricted framework of GPU parallelism. We show that by introducing new data structures and dependency rules, one can realize fine-grain progressive mesh updates as a sequence of parallel streaming passes over the mesh elements. A major design challenge is that the GPU processes stream elements in isolation. The mesh update algorithm has time complexity proportional to the selectively refined mesh, and moreover can be amortized across several frames. The static data structure is remarkably compact, requiring only 57% more memory than an indexed triangle list. We demonstrate real-time exploration of complex models with normals and textures.
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