Real-Time Optimally Adapting Meshes: Terrain Visualization in Games

A Framework for Real-Time Terrain Visualization with Adaptive Semi-Regular Meshes

This work introduces a framework for large terrain data visualization using a highly expressive semi-regular mesh. The main advantage of this structure is that it can represent most objects in real world uniquely and transparently. Stellar operations provide a simple interface for local adaptation such as simplification and refinement. This interface allows common procedures for terrain visuali...

Automated terrain analysis in real-time strategy games

Real-time strategy (RTS) games represent a mainstream genre of video games. They are also practical test-beds for intelligent agents, which have received considerable interest from Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers, in particular game AI researchers. Terrain knowledge understanding is a fundamental issue for RTS agents and map decomposition methods can help AI agents in representing terr...

A Hybrid, Hierarchical Data Structure for Real-Time Terrain Visualization

The approximation tree is a hybrid, hierarchical data structure for real-time terrain visualization which represents both geometry data and texture data of a terrain in a hierarchical manner. This framework can integrate different multiresolution modeling techniques operating on different types of data sets such as TINs, regular grids, and non-regular grids. An approximation tree recursively ag...

Modern Algorithms for Real-Time Terrain Visualization on Commodity Hardware

The amount of input data acquired from a remote sensing equipment is rapidly growing. Interactive visualization of those datasets is a necessity for their correct interpretation. With the ability of modern hardware to display hundreds of millions of triangles per second, it is possible to visualize the massive terrains at one pixel display error on HD displays with interactive frame rates when ...

Real-time Terrain Rendering and Visualization Based on Hierarchical Method