Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization
Universita dell’Insubria, Varese
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2006
@article{tarini2006ambient,
title={Ambient occlusion and edge cueing to enhance real time molecular visualization},
author={Tarini, M. and Cignoni, P. and Montani, C.},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
pages={1237–1244},
year={2006},
publisher={IEEE Computer Society}
}
The paper presents a set of combined techniques to enhance the real-time visualization of simple or complex molecules (up to order of 10^6 atoms) space fill mode. The proposed approach includes an innovative technique for efficient computation and storage of ambient occlusion terms, a small set of GPU accelerated procedural impostors for space-fill and ball-and-stick rendering, and novel edge-cueing techniques. As a result, the user’s understanding of the three-dimensional structure under inspection is strongly increased (even for’still images), while the rendering still occurs in real time
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