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Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization
September-October 2006 (vol. 12 no. 5)
pp. 1237-1244
The paper presents a set of combined techniques to enhance the real-time visualization of simple or complex molecules (up to order of $10^6$ atoms) space fill mode. The proposed approach includes an innovative technique for efficient computation and storage of ambient occlusion terms, a small set of GPU accelerated procedural impostors for space-fill and ball-and-stick rendering, and novel edge-cueing techniques. As a result, the user's understanding of the three-dimensional structure under inspection is strongly increased (even for still images), while the rendering still occurs in real time.
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Index Terms:
Molecular Visualization, Ambient Occlusion, Real Time Rendering
Citation:
Marco Tarini, Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani, "Ambient Occlusion and Edge Cueing for Enhancing Real Time Molecular Visualization," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1237-1244, Sept. 2006, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2006.115
