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Ray tracing height fields

Qu et al., 2003

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Document ID
4008835798294995454
Author
Qu H
Qiu F
Zhang N
Kaufman A
Wan M
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings Computer Graphics International 2003

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We present a novel surface reconstruction algorithm which can directly reconstruct surfaces with different levels of smoothness in one framework from height fields using 3D discrete grid ray tracing. Our algorithm exploits the 2.5 D nature of the elevation data and the …
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