Texture-lobes for tree modelling
- 25 July 2011
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Graphics
- Vol. 30 (4)
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1964921.1964948
Abstract
We present a lobe-based tree representation for modeling trees. The new representation is based on the observation that the tree's foliage details can be abstracted into canonical geometry structures, termed lobe-textures. We introduce techniques to (i) approximate the geometry of given tree data and encode it into a lobe-based representation, (ii) decode the representation and synthesize a fully detailed tree model that visually resembles the input. The encoded tree serves as a light intermediate representation, which facilitates efficient storage and transmission of massive amounts of trees, e. g., from a server to clients for interactive applications in urban environments. The method is evaluated by both reconstructing laser scanned trees (given as point sets) as well as re-representing existing tree models (given as polygons).Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (6.09E+23)
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Foundation (JC201005270340A)
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