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Compression-Based 3D Texture Mapping for Real-Time Rendering

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Chandrajit Bajaj,

Sanghun ParkAuthors Info & Claims

Graphical Models, Volume 62, Issue 6

Pages 391 - 410

https://doi.org/10.1006/gmod.2000.0532

Published: 01 December 2000 Publication History

Abstract

While 2D texture mapping is one of the most effective of the rendering techniques that make 3D objects appear visually interesting, it often suffers from visual artifacts produced when 2D image patterns are wrapped onto the surfaces of objects with arbitrary shapes. On the other hand, 3D texture mapping generates highly natural visual effects in which objects appear carved from lumps of materials rather than laminated with thin sheets as in 2D texture mapping. Storing 3D texture images in a table for fast mapping computations, instead of evaluating procedures on the fly, however, has been considered impractical due to the extremely high memory requirement. In this paper, we present a new effective method for 3D texture mapping designed for real-time rendering of polygonal models. Our scheme attempts to resolve the potential texture memory problem by compressing 3D textures using a wavelet-based encoding method. The experimental results on various nontrivial 3D textures and polygonal models show that high compression rates are achieved with few visual artifacts in the rendered images and a small impact on rendering time. The simplicity of our compression-based scheme will make it easy to implement practical 3D texture mapping in software/hardware rendering systems including real-time 3D graphics APIs such as OpenGL and Direct3D.

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Cited By

Kraus MErtl TLastra ASchneider B(2002)Adaptive texture mapsProceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware10.5555/569046.569048(7-15)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/569046.569048
Bajaj CIhm IPark S(2001)3D RGB image compression for interactive applicationsACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)10.1145/383745.38374720:1(10-38)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2001
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/383745.383747

Index Terms

Compression-Based 3D Texture Mapping for Real-Time Rendering
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
  2. Real-time systems
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Computer vision representations
        Appearance and texture representations
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Image compression
    2. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing

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Graphical Models Volume 62, Issue 6

Pacific Graphics '99 in Graphical Models

Nov. 2000

55 pages

ISSN:1524-0703

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Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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Ingrid Carlbom
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Kraus MErtl TLastra ASchneider B(2002)Adaptive texture mapsProceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware10.5555/569046.569048(7-15)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/569046.569048
Bajaj CIhm IPark S(2001)3D RGB image compression for interactive applicationsACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)10.1145/383745.38374720:1(10-38)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2001
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/383745.383747

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