Legolizer: A Real-Time System for Modeling and Rendering LEGO Representations of Boundary Models
Inst. de Inf., UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
XXII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI), 2009
In this work we propose a method for converting triangular meshes into LEGO bricks through a voxel representation of boundary meshes. We present a novel voxelization approach that uses points sampled from a surface model to define which cubes (voxels) and their associated colors will compose the model. All steps of the algorithm were implemented on the GPU and real-time performance was achieved with satisfactory volumetric resolutions. Rendering results are illustrated using realistic graphics techniques such as screen space ambient occlusion and irradiance maps.
June 18, 2011 by hgpu