ManyLoDs: Parallel Many-View Level-of-Detail Selection for Real-Time Global Illumination
Matthias Hollander, Tobias Ritschel, Elmar Eisemann, Tamy Boubekeur
In Computer Graphics Forum, 30(4), June 2011.
Abstract: Level-of-Detail structures are a key component for scalable rendering. Built from raw 3D data, these structures are often defined as Bounding Volume Hierarchies, providing coarse-to-fine adaptive approximations that are well-adapted for many-view rasterization. Here, the total number of pixels in each view is usually low, while the cost of choosing the appropriate LoD for each view is high. This task represents a challenge for existing GPU algorithms. We propose ManyLoDs, a new GPU algorithm to efficiently compute many LoDs from a Bounding Volume Hierarchy in parallel by balancing the workload within and among LoDs. Our approach is not specific to a particular rendering technique, can be used on lazy representations such as polygon soups, and can handle dynamic scenes. We apply our method to various many-view rasterization applications, including Instant Radiosity, Point-Based Global Illumination, and reflection/refraction mapping. For each of these, we achieve real-time performance in complex scenes at high resolutions.
@article{Hollander:2011:MPM,
author = {Matthias Hollander and Tobias Ritschel and Elmar Eisemann and Tamy Boubekeur},
title = {ManyLoDs: Parallel Many-View Level-of-Detail Selection for Real-Time Global Illumination},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
volume = {30},
number = {4},
pages = {1233--1240},
month = jun,
year = {2011},
}
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