GPU Pro 360 Guide to Geometry Manipulation

Content: Cover
 Half Title
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 Copyrights
 Contents
 Introduction
 Web Materials
 Chapter 1. As Simple as Possible Tessellation for Interactive Applications
 1.1 Basic Phong Tessellation Operator
 1.2 Extension to Quads
 1.3 Results and Discussion
 Bibliography
 Chapter 2. Rule-Based Geometry Synthesis in Real-Time
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Building Up the Scene with Procedures
 2.3 L-systems and the PGI
 2.4 Model Details and Implementation
 2.5 Interaction with the Procedural Scene
 2.6 Results
 2.7 Conclusion
 Bibliography
 Chapter 3. GPU-Based NURBS Geometry Evaluation and Rendering 3.1 A Bit of NURBS Background3.2 Related Work
 3.3 NURBS Surface and Curve Evaluation
 3.4 Trimmed NURBS Surface Evaluation
 3.5 Results and Conclusion
 Bibliography
 Chapter 4. Polygonal-Functional Hybrids for Computer Animation and Games
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Background
 4.3 Working with FRep Models Using the GPU
 4.4 Applications
 4.5 Tools
 4.6 Limitations
 4.7 Conclusion
 4.8 Source Code
 Bibliography
 Chapter 5. Terrain and Ocean Rendering with Hardware Tessellation
 5.1 DirectX 11 Graphics Pipeline
 5.2 De nition of Geometry 5.3 Vertex Position, Vertex Normal, and Texture Coordinates5.4 Tessellation Correction Depending on the Camera Angle
 5.5 Conclusions
 Bibliography
 Chapter 6. Practical and Realistic Facial Wrinkles Animation
 6.1 Background
 6.2 Our Algorithm
 6.3 Results
 6.4 Discussion
 6.5 Conclusion
 6.6 Acknowledgments
 Bibliography
 Chapter 7. Procedural Content Generation on the GPU
 7.1 Abstract
 7.2 Introduction
 7.3 Terrain Generation and Rendering
 7.4 Environmental E ects
 7.5 Putting It All Together
 7.6 Conclusions and Future Work
 Bibliography
 Chapter 8. Vertex Shader Tessellation 8.1 Overview8.2 Introduction
 8.3 The Basic Vertex Shader Tessellation Algorithm
 8.4 Per-Edge Fractional Tessellation Factors
 8.5 Conclusion
 Bibliography
 Chapter 9. Optimized Stadium Crowd Rendering
 9.1 Introduction
 9.2 Overview
 9.3 Content Pipeline
 9.4 Rendering
 9.5 Further Optimizations
 9.6 Limitations
 9.7 Conclusion
 9.8 Acknowledgments
 Bibliography
 Chapter 10. Geometric Antialiasing Methods
 10.1 Introduction and Previous Work
 10.2 Algorithm
 10.3 Conclusion and Future Work
 Bibliography
 Chapter 11. GPU Terrain Subdivision and Tessellation
 11.1 Introduction 11.2 The Algorithm11.3 Results
 11.4 Conclusions
 Bibliography
 Chapter 12. Introducing the Programmable Vertex Pulling Rendering Pipeline
 12.1 Introduction
 12.2 Draw Submission Limitations and Objectives
 12.3 Evaluating Draw Call CPU Overhead and the GPU Draw Submission Limitation
 12.4 Programmable Vertex Pulling
 12.5 Side E ects of the Software Design
 12.6 Future Work
 12.7 Conclusion
 Bibliography
 Chapter 13. A WebGL Globe Rendering Pipeline
 13.1 Introduction
 13.2 Rendering Pipeline Overview
 13.3 Filling Cracks in Screen Space
 13.4 Filling Poles in Screen Space