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Real-Time Creased Approximate Subdivision Surfaces with Displacements
September/October 2010 (vol. 16 no. 5)
pp. 742-751
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Denis Kovacs, Jason Mitchell, Shanon Drone, Denis Zorin, "Real-Time Creased Approximate Subdivision Surfaces with Displacements," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 742-751, September/October, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2010.31,
author = {Denis Kovacs and Jason Mitchell and Shanon Drone and Denis Zorin},
title = {Real-Time Creased Approximate Subdivision Surfaces with Displacements},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {16},
number = {5},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2010},
pages = {742-751},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2010.31},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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PY - 2010
KW - Subdivision surfaces
KW - geometric modeling
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Denis Kovacs, New York University, New York
Jason Mitchell, Valve Corporation, Bellevue
Shanon Drone, Valve Corporation, Bellevue
Denis Zorin, New York University, New York
We present an extension of Loop and Schaefer's approximation of Catmull-Clark surfaces (ACC) for surfaces with creases and corners. We discuss the integration of ACC into Valve's Source game engine and analyze performance of our implementation.

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Index Terms:
Subdivision surfaces, geometric modeling, displacement mapping, GPU tessellation, hardware rendering, video games.
Citation:
Denis Kovacs, Jason Mitchell, Shanon Drone, Denis Zorin, "Real-Time Creased Approximate Subdivision Surfaces with Displacements," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 742-751, Sep./Oct. 2010, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2010.31
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