Point-Based Graphics
A Tutorial by
Marc Alexa, TU Darmstadt
Markus Gross, ETH Zurich
Hanspeter Pfister, MERL
Mark Pauly, ETH Zurich
Marc Stamminger, Uni Erlangen
Matthias Zwicker, ETH Zurich
Point-sampled graphics allows us to efficiently acquire, process, and display complex, real-life, three-dimensional objects. This tutorial introduces points as a powerful and versatile graphics primitive complementing traditional triangle representations. The authors present their latest concepts for the acquisition, representation, modeling, processing, and rendering of point-sampled geometry along with applications and future research directions. We describe algorithms and discuss implementations, covering the most important aspects of point-based computer graphics.
This course will be presented this year at SIGGRAPH. It has also been held previously as a tutorial at Eurographics 2002 in Saarbrucken, Germany, and Eurographics 2003 in Granada, Spain.
