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A novel page-based data structure for interactive walkthroughs

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Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez,

M. GopiAuthors Info & Claims

I3D '09: Proceedings of the 2009 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

Pages 23 - 29

https://doi.org/10.1145/1507149.1507153

Published: 27 February 2009 Publication History

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Given a data layout of a large walkthrough scene, we present a novel and simple spatial hierarchy on the disk-pages of the layout that has notable advantages over a conventional spatial hierarchy on the scene geometry. Assume that each disk-page consists of a set of triangles whose bounding boxes are computed. A spatial hierarchy of the walkthrough space is constructed, not with the given scene, but with the bounding boxes of disk-pages. The leaf nodes of the spatial-hierarchy refer directly to the page numbers of the pages of the bounding box it contains. We call this hierarchy on the pages as the disk-page hierarchy. We also propose a self-contained disk-page format that would suit this data structure well. Further, we present a new cache-oblivious graph-based data layout algorithm called the 2-factor layout that would preserve the proximity and orientation properties of the primitives in the layout. Walkthrough experiments have been conducted on a city scene consisting of over 110M triangles. Our system renders this scene on a laptop within a one pixel projection error at over 20 fps with simple texture substitution based simplification of distant objects, and with no explicit data/cache management.

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I3D '09: Proceedings of the 2009 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics and games

February 2009

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ISBN:9781605584294

DOI:10.1145/1507149

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Williams College
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Daniel G. Aliaga
Purdue University
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Manuel M. Oliveira
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

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