1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788060303321

Autore

Cozzi Patrick

Titolo

3D engine design for virtual globes / / by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : A K Peters/CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2011

ISBN

0-429-10846-X

1-56881-711-8

1-4398-6558-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (514 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, photographs

Classificazione

COM012000

Disciplina

005.75/8

Soggetti

Search engines - Programming

Web search engines

Three-dimensional imaging

Digital mapping

Texture mapping

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Math Foundations -- chapter 3 Renderer Design -- chapter 4 Globe Rendering -- chapter 5 Vertex Transform Precision -- chapter 6 Depth Buffer Precision -- chapter 7 Vector Data and Polylines -- chapter 8 Polygons -- chapter 9 Billboards -- chapter 10 Exploiting Parallelism in Resource Preparation -- chapter 11 Terrain Basics -- chapter 12 Massive-Terrain Rendering -- chapter 13 Geometry Clipmapping -- chapter 14 Chunked LOD.

Sommario/riassunto

Supported with code examples and the authors’ real-world experience, this book offers the first guide to engine design and rendering algorithms for virtual globe applications like Google Earth and NASA World Wind. The content is also useful for general graphics and games, especially planet and massive-world engines. With pragmatic advice throughout, it is essential reading for practitioners, researchers, and hobbyists in these areas, and can be used as a text for a special topics course in computer graphics.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910674043503321

Autore

Lovra Éva

Titolo

Heritage Patterns-Representative Models

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Soggetti

Architecture

The Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The Heritage Patterns-Representative Models issue of Heritage welcomed twelve articles that discussed traditional and contemporary methodologies, as well as scholars from different backgrounds who intended to seek patterns of tangible heritage and its underlying principles to understand the diversity of heritage approaches. The Special Issue aims to research the patterns in heritage and the underlying rules that define tangible heritage as a universal value in spatial coexistence, economics, urban life, and design via case studies and theoretical proposals that could be implemented in the future. The pattern language and the heritage phenomenon could act as a base of observation to deduct logic and create generative algorithms (generative design); to understand the importance of spatial connection with tangible heritage and urban forms (space syntax, urban morphology, and urban morphometrics) and its visibility; as well as archaeological, architectural, and urban heritage. Based on the UNESCO-ICOMOS doctrines and the examination of morphological regions, urban morphological research and its different layers (urban forms, structural components, built environment, urban tissue, and their interaction) act as a background and foundation for general urban heritage conservation and protection proposals, and also as the base of specific interventions in the built environment caused by natural disasters.