Real-time water rendering based on the graphics hardware acceleration

Author

Chen, Rong-Qin

Author_Institution

Sch. of Math. & Inf. Eng., Taizhou Univ., Linhai

fYear

2009

fDate

11-12 April 2009

Firstpage

273

Lastpage

277

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient method for water rendering in real-time by taking advantage of the parallelism and programmability of a GPU (graphic processing unit). We propose a dynamical radial grid to tessellate the water surface and perform sampling and displacement mapping on the vertex shader. Some special effect is simulated to improve the photorealism of our real-time water rendering. The results show that our method is suitable for some real-time applications.

Keywords

rendering (computer graphics); displacement mapping; graphic processing unit; graphics hardware acceleration; real-time water rendering; vertex shader; Acceleration; Application software; Central Processing Unit; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Hardware; Rendering (computer graphics); Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Surface roughness; Displacement Mapping; Graphics Processing Unit; Level of Detail; Pixel Shader; Radial Grid; Real-Time Rendering; Vertex Shader; Water Rendering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Analysis and Signal Processing, 2009. IASP 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taizhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3987-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IASP.2009.5054646

Filename

5054646

Link To Document

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