Interactive synthesis and visualisation of vast areas with geometrically diverse trees

Abstract

This paper summarises a Doctoral Thesis which proposes a new approach for large-scale forest visualisation with geometrically diverse trees. The main contribution of the proposed method is an interactive visualisation of numerous trees without generating geometric data in advance, which is achieved by a new method for on-the-fly tree skeleton synthesis with a specific level of detail, and by a new procedural volumetric tree crown visualisation which avoids geometry formation altogether. The proposed method enables visualisation of forests with millions of trees, thus allowing rendering more trees than geometry-based visualisation methods.

Authors

  • Štefan Kohek Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v44i1.3114

Downloads

Published

03/15/2020

How to Cite

Kohek, Štefan. (2020). Interactive synthesis and visualisation of vast areas with geometrically diverse trees. Informatica, 44(1). https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v44i1.3114

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Thesis summary

License

I assign to Informatica, An International Journal of Computing and Informatics ("Journal") the copyright in the manuscript identified above and any additional material (figures, tables, illustrations, software or other information intended for publication) submitted as part of or as a supplement to the manuscript ("Paper") in all forms and media throughout the world, in all languages, for the full term of copyright, effective when and if the article is accepted for publication. This transfer includes the right to reproduce and/or to distribute the Paper to other journals or digital libraries in electronic and online forms and systems.

I understand that I retain the rights to use the pre-prints, off-prints, accepted manuscript and published journal Paper for personal use, scholarly purposes and internal institutional use.

In certain cases, I can ask for retaining the publishing rights of the Paper. The Journal can permit or deny the request for publishing rights, to which I fully agree.

I declare that the submitted Paper is original, has been written by the stated authors and has not been published elsewhere nor is currently being considered for publication by any other journal and will not be submitted for such review while under review by this Journal.  The Paper contains no material that violates proprietary rights of any other person or entity. I have obtained written permission from copyright owners for any excerpts from copyrighted works that are included and have credited the sources in my article. I have informed the co-author(s) of the terms of this publishing agreement.


Copyright ©  Slovenian Society Informatika