GPU加速的台风可视化方法

自然现象的可视化是计算机图形学和虚拟现实领域的重要研究内容。对传统光线投射算法分析的基础上进行改进,提出基于球壳体的光线投射算法。将GPU运用于球壳体数据场的体绘制,设计了基于球壳体数据场的顶点着色程序和像素着色程序。同时,对台风源数据格式进行解析,生成了用于台风可视化的体数据,采用提出的算法实现了台风云层和因子的可视化。实验结果表明,本文基于GPU的球壳体光线投射算法在球体表面较好地实现了实时台风可视化效果。     

MCGIM-Based Model Streaming for Realtime Progressive Rendering

While most mesh streaming techniques focus on optimizing the transmission order of the polygon data,few approaches have addressed the streaming problems by using geometry images(GIM).In this paper,we present a new approach which firstly partitions a mesh into several surface patches,then converts these patches into multi-chart geometry images(MCGIM).After resampling the MCGIM and normal map atlas are obtained,we hierarchically construct the regular geometry image representation by adopting the quadtree structure.In this way,the encoded nodes can be transmitted in arbitrary order with high transmission flexibility.Also,the rendering quality of the partially transmitted models can be greatly improved by using the normal texture atlas.Meanwhile only the geometry on the silhouette to the current viewpoint are required to be refined and transmitted,therefore the amount of data is minimized for transferring each frame.In particular,our approach also allows users to encode and transmit the mesh data via JPEG2000 technique.Therefore,our mesh streaming method is suitable for transmitting 3D animation models with use of Motion JPEG2000 videos.Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach,which enables one server to stream the MCGIM texture atlas to the clients.Also,the transmitted model can be rendered in a multiresolution manner by GPU acceleration on the client side,due to the regular geometry structure of MCGIM.     

Multi-resolution terrain rendering with GPU tessellation

GPU tessellation is very efficient and is reshaping the terrain-rendering paradigm. We present a novel terrain-rendering algorithm based on GPU tessellation. The planar domain of the terrain is partitioned into a set of tiles, and a coarse-grained quadtree is constructed for each tile using a screen-space error metric. Then, each node of the quadtree is input to the GPU pipeline together with its own tessellation factors. The nodes are tessellated and the vertices of the tessellated mesh are displaced by filtering the displacement maps. The multi-resolution scheme is designed to optimize the use of GPU tessellation. Further, it accepts not only height maps but also geometry images, which displace more vertices toward the higher curvature feature parts of the terrain surface such that the surface detail can be well reconstructed with a small number of vertices. The efficiency of the proposed method is proven through experiments on large terrain models. When the screen-space error threshold is set to a pixel, a terrain surface tessellated into 8.5 M triangles is rendered at 110 fps on commodity PCs.     

Efficient Geometry Compression for GPU-based Decoding in Realtime Terrain Rendering

We present a geometry compression scheme for restricted quadtree meshes and use this scheme for the compression of adaptively triangulated digital elevation models (DEMs). A compression factor of 8–9 is achieved by employing a generalized strip representation of quadtree meshes to incrementally encode vertex positions. In combination with adaptive error-controlled triangulation, this allows us to significantly reduce bandwidth requirements in the rendering of large DEMs that have to be paged from disk. The compression scheme is specifically tailored for GPU-based decoding, since it minimizes dependent memory access operations. We can thus trade CPU operations and CPU–GPU data transfer for GPU processing, resulting in twice faster streaming of DEMs from main memory into GPU memory. A novel storage format for decoded DEMs on the GPU facilitates a sustained rendering throughput of about 300 million triangles per second. Due to these properties, the proposed scheme enables scalable rendering with respect to the display resolution independent of the data size. For a maximum screen-space error below 1 pixel it achieves frame rates of over 100 fps, even on high-resolution displays. We validate the efficiency of the proposed method by presenting experimental results on scanned elevation models of several hundred gigabytes.     

基于GPU的海量离散点高程并行插值算法

提出一种基于GPU的高程并行插值算法,实现了对三维地表上海量离散点的并行加速渲染。通过高程纹理组织三维地表网格高程数据作为离散点渲染的基础,并通过GLSL编写GPU着色器程序动态控制图形渲染管线,实现视点相关的高程并行插值算法。实验结果表明,提出的基于GPU的高程并行插值算法较传统的内存插值算法,将三维地表上海量离散点的渲染量级从百万级提高到了千万级。     

分块LOD连续非线性分布的地形渲染

基于四叉树的数据结构,提出了一种适于GPU批处理的地形可视化算法,以地形分块作为基本的处理单元,使用同一个顶点缓冲区对象实现所有地形块三角形集的渲染,提出了地形分块非线性分布的LOD选取函数,通过提出的地形块综合平滑因子,在顶点着色器上实现了高程值的平滑过渡,给出了GPU上算法的处理过程。实验对比结果表明,该算法地形绘制LOD层次调节方便,具有较高的地形渲染效率。     

基于硬件细分的层次细节地形渲染算法

针对顶点着色器细分地形网格需要额外生成模板、计算细分层次复杂的不足,提出了一种利用细分着色器进行地形网格细分的层次细节(LOD)地形渲染算法。利用分块四叉树组织建立地形粗糙网格的分层结构,以LOD判别函数对活动地形块进行筛选;提出了在细分控制着色器中基于视点三维连续距离的细分因子计算方法,并针对外部细分因子进行处理消除了裂缝;实现在细分计算着色器上的置换贴图,对精细网格的高度分量进行位移。而且将四叉树结构存储至顶点缓冲区,减少中央处理器(CPU)与图形处理器(GPU)的资源交换;引入细分队列加速细分过程。实验证明,该算法具有平滑的细节层次过渡和良好的细分效果,能够有效提高GPU利用率和地形渲染效率。     

基于GPU的真实感毛发快速绘制

提出一种基于图形处理器(GPU)加速的真实感毛发快速绘制方法.方法通过混合绘制多层次的半透明纹理层来表示物体表面的毛发效果,并在绘制过程充分运用了GPU的可编程功能.其中采用GPU的顶点绘制器来完成多层网格层顶点位置的计算;采用像素绘制器来实现毛发特殊光照效果的计算.实验表明,通过采用GPU可编程计算,毛发的绘制速度得到了明显提高.方法对中等规模的模型达到了实时的毛发绘制速度,并具有逼真的仿真效果.     

View-dependent refinement of multiresolution meshes using programmable graphics hardware

View-dependent multiresolution rendering places a heavy load on CPU. This paper presents a new method on view-dependent refinement of multiresolution meshes by using the computation power of modern programmable graphics hardware (GPU). Two rendering passes using this method are included. During the first pass, the level of detail selection is performed in the fragment shaders. The resultant buffer from the first pass is taken as the input texture to the second rendering pass by vertex texturing, and then the node culling and triangulation can be performed in the vertex shaders. Our approach can generate adaptive meshes in real-time, and can be fully implemented on GPU. The method improves the efficiency of mesh simplification, and significantly alleviates the computing load on CPU.     

基于GPU的医学图像快速面绘制

提出了一种医学图像快速面绘制的方法,该方法将新一代图形处理器GeForce 8800的特性和MC（Marching Cubes）算法相结合。利用几何着色器的数据批处理能力在每个立方体中提取等值面并生成三角形带;在片段着色器上采用Phong光照模型对生成三角形渲染显示。建模和显示过程均在GPU上完成,对CPU的依赖低。实验表明,在保证绘制效果的前提下,该方法可在通用PC平台上实现大小为512×512×400的CT数据的实时建模,有很好的实用价值。     

基于CUDA的并行加速渲染算法

GPU可以快速有效的处理海量数据,因此在近些年成为图形图像数据处理领域的研究热点。针对现有GPU渲染中在处理含有大量相同或相似模型场景时存在资源利用率低下和带宽消耗过大的问题,在原有GPU渲染架构的基础上提出了一种基于CUDA的加速渲染方法。在该方法中,根据现有的GPU渲染模式构建对应的模型,通过模型找出其不足,从而引申出常量内存的概念;然后分析常量内存的特性以及对渲染产生的作用,从而引入基于常量内存控制的方法来实现渲染的加速,整个渲染过程可以通过渲染算法进行控制。实验结果表明,该方法对解决上述问题具有较好的效果,最终实现加速渲染。     

基于几何着色器的Shadow Volume实时阴影实现

通过几何着色器生成Shadow Volume实时阴影。利用几何着色器能生成新顶点与输出流的特性,将以往由CPU完成的产生封闭阴影体的计算转移到图形处理器中实现。该实现能提高算法渲染效率,可以进一步解放CPU的处理时间。比传统先由CPU生成阴影体雏形的方法更简单,性能更优秀。     

GPU加速的光滑轮廓线绘制

轮廓线的高效提取是非真实感绘制的一个关键问题。提出了一个完全利用GPU生成光滑轮廓线的高效算法。在几何处理阶段,先根据相邻三角形的法向量与视向量的关系检测出轮廓线,然后对轮廓线进行宽度扩充,同时对轮廓线顶点设置相应的渐变因子;在像素处理阶段把渐变因子转化为相应的alpha值,通过光照生成卡通渲染,最后通过alpha混合得到光滑轮廓线。算法完全在GPU里实现,能满足实时的绘制要求。     

Adaptive Caustic Maps Using Deferred Shading

Caustic maps provide an interactive image-space method to render caustics, the focusing of light via reflection and refraction. Unfortunately, caustic mapping suffers problems similar to shadow mapping: aliasing from poor sampling and map projection as well as temporal incoherency from frame-to-frame sampling variations. To reduce these problems, researchers have suggested methods ranging from caustic blurring to building a multiresolution caustic map. Yet these all require a fixed photon sampling, precluding the use of importance-based photon densities. This paper introduces adaptive caustic maps. Instead of densely sampling photons via a rasterization pass, we adaptively emit photons using a deferred shading pass. We describe deferred rendering for refractive surfaces, which speeds rendering of refractive geometry up to 25% and with adaptive sampling speeds caustic rendering up to 200%. These benefits are particularly noticable for complex geometry or using millions of photons. While developed for a GPU rasterizer, adaptive caustic map creation can be performed by any renderer that individually traces photons, e.g., a GPU ray tracer.     

基于几何着色器的Shadow Volume实时阴影实现

通过几何着色器生成Shadow Volume实时阴影。利用几何着色器能生成新顶点与输出流的特性,将以往由CPU完成的产生封闭阴影体的计算转移到图形处理器中实现。该实现能提高算法渲染效率,可以进一步解放CPU的处理时间。比传统先由CPU生成阴影体雏形的方法更简单,性能更优秀。     

一种面向55 nm工艺的可扩展统一架构图形处理器设计与实现

现代3D图形处理器已从固定渲染管线发展成可编程渲染管线,且其并行度越来越高,研究并设计高性能的3D图形处理器对3D图形处理具有重要意义。着色器是实现3D图形处理器的核心,因此开发性能高、面积小、功耗低又易于扩展的着色器对3D图形处理器的开发具有重要作用。提出的统一架构图形处理器基于单指令多线程和单指令多数据,单指令多线程可以提高图形处理的并行度,从而提高图形处理性能;单指令多数据可以降低设计复杂度,从而实现面积小、功耗低又易于扩展的着色器。实验结果表明,提出的统一架构图形处理器在面积较小、功耗较低的情况下实现了较高的性能,且设计可扩展性较好。     

基于GPU的近似软影实时绘制

通过对阴影图算法进行扩展,提出一种完全基于GPU的近似软影实时绘制算法,它是一种3遍算法:第一遍从光源中心计算场景的深度图;第二遍采用几何着色器提取物体的轮廓边,同时在轮廓边上生成新的几何图元,利用硬件自动插值功能向外绘制线性近似半影图,并根据第一遍得到的深度图在像素着色器中对背面轮廓形成的半影区进行剔除;对于重叠的半影区设定片元的伪深度值,利用硬件进行自动融合.第三遍分别查询深度图和半影图,确定场景的本影区以及半影区中像素的亮度,从而得到面光源照射下场景的近似软影效果.     

基于GPU的交互式体数据切割

为实现实时高效的体数据切割操作,提出一种将人机交互和基于GPU的体绘制相结合的切割方法.先通过人机交互生成多个切割体的几何形状并三角化,将其作为基于GPU的光线投射算法的代理面,然后利用深度剥离算法获得光线在所有代理面上的出入射点坐标,并用多个通道完成体绘制.该方法在单个3D纹理上进行,可以实现多个任意形状的切割体切割,在节省GPU内存空间的同时,提高了切割后的绘制效率.     

A Flexible Kernel for Adaptive Mesh Refinement on GPU

We present a flexible GPU kernel for adaptive on‐the‐fly refinement of meshes with arbitrary topology. By simply reserving a small amount of GPU memory to store a set of adaptive refinement patterns, on‐the‐fly refinement is performed by the GPU, without any preprocessing nor additional topology data structure. The level of adaptive refinement can be controlled by specifying a per‐vertex depth‐tag, in addition to usual position, normal, color and texture coordinates. This depth‐tag is used by the kernel to instanciate the correct refinement pattern, which will map a refined connectivity on the input coarse polygon. Finally, the refined patch produced for each triangle can be displaced by the vertex shader, using any kind of geometric refinement, such as Bezier patch smoothing, scalar valued displacement, procedural geometry synthesis or subdivision surfaces. This refinement engine does neither require multipass rendering nor any use of fragment processing nor special preprocess of the input mesh structure. It can be implemented on any GPU with vertex shading capabilities.     

基于参数空间的混合多分辨率绘制

根据点和多边形在表示和绘制物体上各自不同的特点,提出了一种有效绘制细节高度复杂物体的多分辨率方法.3D表面被映射到参数平面,经规则采样成为几何图像,P-Quadtrees是基于几何图像建立的四叉树多分辨率层次结构.通过对四叉树的遍历,面向视点的表面用较大多边形面片绘制,光照细节通过法向映射完成;轮廓部分通过视点相关的LOD(level of detail)控制进行细化,使用点来绘制物体复杂精细的轮廓.通过此方法,细节复杂模型的绘制不仅可以被硬件加速,而且无论在表面还是在轮廓部分都能获得很好的视觉效果.