Journal
GRAPHICAL MODELS
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.gmod.2016.09.002
Keywords
Multiresolution; WebGL; 3D Web; Web based 3D rendering; Online 3D content deployment; Mesh compression
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- EU FP7 project ICT Harvest4D [323567]
- EU INFRA Project Ariadne [313193]
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Limited bandwidth is a strong constraint when efficient transmission of 3D data to Web clients and mobile applications is needed. In this paper we present a novel multi-resolution WebGL based rendering algorithm which combines progressive loading, view-dependent resolution and mesh compression, providing high frame rates and a decoding speed of million of triangles per second in JavaScript. The method is parallelizable and scalable to very large models. The algorithm is based on the local multi-resolution approaches provided by the community, but ad-hoc solutions had to be studied and implemented to provide adequate performances. In particular, a compression mechanism that reached very high compression rate without impact on rendering performance was implemented. Moreover, the data partition strategy was modified in order to be able to load different types of data (i.e. point clouds) and better adapt to the potentials and limitations of web-based rendering. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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