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Silhouette Smoothing for Real-Time Rendering of Mesh Surfaces
May/June 2008 (vol. 14 no. 3)
pp. 640-652
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Lu Wang, Changhe Tu, Wenping Wang, Xiangxu Meng, Bin Chan, Dongming Yan, "Silhouette Smoothing for Real-Time Rendering of Mesh Surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 640-652, May/June, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2008.8,
author = {Lu Wang and Changhe Tu and Wenping Wang and Xiangxu Meng and Bin Chan and Dongming Yan},
title = {Silhouette Smoothing for Real-Time Rendering of Mesh Surfaces},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {14},
number = {3},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2008},
pages = {640-652},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2008.8},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
TI - Silhouette Smoothing for Real-Time Rendering of Mesh Surfaces
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A1 - Changhe Tu,
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A1 - Bin Chan,
A1 - Dongming Yan,
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KW - Computer Graphics
KW - Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism
KW - Display algorithms
KW - Antialiasing
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Coarse piecewise linear approximation of surfaces causes undesirable polygonal appearance of silhouettes. We present an efficient method for smoothing the silhouettes of coarse triangle meshes using efficient 3D curve reconstruction and simple local re-meshing. It does not assume the availability of a fine mesh and generates only moderate amount of additional data at run time. Furthermore, polygonal feature edges are also smoothed in a unified framework. Our method is based on a novel interpolation scheme over silhouette triangles and this ensures that smooth silhouettes are faithfully reconstructed and always change continuously with respect to continuous movement of the view point or objects. We speed up computation with GPU assistance to achieve real-time rendering of coarse meshes with the smoothed silhouettes. Experiments show that this method outperforms previous methods for silhouette smoothing.

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Index Terms:
Computer Graphics, Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism, Display algorithms, Antialiasing
Citation:
Lu Wang, Changhe Tu, Wenping Wang, Xiangxu Meng, Bin Chan, Dongming Yan, "Silhouette Smoothing for Real-Time Rendering of Mesh Surfaces," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 640-652, May-June 2008, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2008.8
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