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Hybrid transparency

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Marilena Maule,

João Comba,

Rafael Torchelsen,

Rui BastosAuthors Info & Claims

I3D '13: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

Pages 103 - 118

https://doi.org/10.1145/2448196.2448212

Published: 21 March 2013 Publication History

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Hybrid transparency is an approach for real-time approximation of order-independent transparency. Our hybrid approach combines an accurate compositing, of a few core transparent layers, with a quick approximation, for the remaining layers. Its main advantage, the ability to operate in bounded memory without noticeable artifacts, enables its usage with high scene complexity and image resolution, which other approaches fail to handle. Hybrid transparency is suitable for highly-parallel execution, can be implemented in current GPUs and further improved, with minimal architecture changes. We present quality, memory, and performance analysis and comparisons which demonstrate that hybrid transparency is able to generate high-quality images at competitive frames rates and with the lowest memory consumption among comparable OIT techniques.

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Hybrid transparency
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Graphics recognition and interpretation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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I3D '13: Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

March 2013

242 pages

ISBN:9781450319560

DOI:10.1145/2448196

Conference Chairs:
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University of California, Irvine
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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University of Washington
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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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