Exploiting Temporal and Spatial Coherence in Hierarchical Visibility Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Jiri Bittner;Vlastimil Havran

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SCCG '01 Proceedings of the 17th Spring conference on Computer graphics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Abstract: We present a series of simple improvements that make use of temporal and spatial coherence in the scope of hierarchical visibility algorithms. The hierarchy updating avoids visibility tests of certain interior nodes of the hierarchy. The visibility propagation algorithm reuses information about visibility of neighbouring spatial regions. Finally, the conservative hierarchy updating avoids visibility tests of the hierarchy nodes that are expected to remain visible. We evaluate the presented methods in the context of hierarchical visibility culling using occlusion trees.