Complex Skeletal Implicit Surfaces with Levels of Detail

Aurélien Barbier & Eric Galin & Samir Akkouche
University of Lyon 1
Department of Computer Science
LIRIS (Lyon Research Center for Images and Intelligent Information Systems)
Bâtiment Nautibus (710)
8, boulevard Niels Bohr
69622 Villeurbanne Cedex
France

e-mail: aurelien.barbier@liris.cnrs.fr

web: http://liris.cnrs.fr/aurelien.barbier

Abstract

Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of complex skeletal primitives such as subdivision curves and surfaces in implicit surface modeling. This paper presents a hierarchichal modeling system with an automatic levels of detail management for a simpler modeling with an accelerated rendering. We manage levels of detail with smooth transitions and tree optimizations speeding up visualization by an order of magnitude, which allows an interactive editing of the shapes.