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Large Scene Rendering

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Large scene rendering causes many issues, including the algorithmic support and software/hardware implementation. The Level Of Details (LOD) architecture is the basis of terrain and vegetation rendering. The texturing techniques are strongly connected with a category of the LOD algorithm. Multi-texturing, clipmaps, and virtual texturing are the main methods, applying in the LOD algorithms. The classification of the forest rendering techniques demonstrates a great variety of methods that were developed actively since 1990s. The realistic leaves and grass rendering in the nearest LOD are the special issues to that ought to be given a lot of attention respect to the current situation in computer graphics. The realistic lighting and shadow mapping technique are also in the focus of consideration.

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  1. Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Siberian State Aerospace University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    Margarita N. Favorskaya

  2. Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  3. Faculty of Science and Technology, Data Science Institute, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  4. KES International, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Favorskaya, M.N., Jain, L.C. (2017). Large Scene Rendering. In: Handbook on Advances in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 122. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52308-8_9

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