EG 2017 - Short Papers

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    Phong Tessellation and PN Polygons for Polygonal Models
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Hettinga, Gerben J.; Kosinka, Jiri; Adrien Peytavie and Carles Bosch
    We extend Phong tessellation and point normal (PN) triangles from the original triangular setting to arbitrary polygons by use of generalised barycentric coordinates and S-patches. In addition, a generalisation of the associated quadratic normal field is given as well as a simple algorithm for evaluating the polygonal extensions for a polygon with vertex normals on the GPU.
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    Variable k-buffer using Importance Maps
    (The Eurographics Association, 2017) Vasilakis, Andreas-Alexandros; Vardis, Konstantinos; Papaioannou, Georgios; Moustakas, Konstantinos; Adrien Peytavie and Carles Bosch
    Successfully predicting visual attention can significantly improve many aspects of computer graphics and games. Despite the thorough investigation in this area, selective rendering has not addressed so far fragment visibility determination problems. To this end, we present the first ''selective multi-fragment rendering'' solution that alters the classic k-buffer construction procedure from a fixed-k to a variable-k per-pixel fragment allocation guided by an importance-driven model. Given a fixed memory budget, the idea is to allocate more fragment layers in parts of the image that need them most or contribute more significantly to the visual result. An importance map, dynamically estimated per frame based on several criteria, is used for the distribution of the fragment layers across the image. We illustrate the effectiveness and quality superiority of our approach in comparison to previous methods when performing order-independent transparency rendering in various, high depth-complexity, scenarios.