Next-Gen Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces – Tesselation



NVIDIA has published a detailed paper (actually around 80 slides!) on subdivision surface. Topics cover the motivation of subdivision (compression, continuous Level of Detail), the main algorithms (Catmull-Clark Subdivision, DirectX 11 Tessellation Pipeline, Gregory Patches and Triangles, Displacement Mapping, Instanced Tessellation) and tools (like NVIDIA Mesh Processing Tool). These last times, subdivision surfaces seems to be a popular topic and I hope to test it soon…

You can download the paper here: Siggraph 2008: Next-Generation Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces.

A demo of Instanced Tesselation in Direct3D is avalable here: Instanced Tessellation Demo – DirectX 10.



Related posts:

  1. Patch Tesselation Demo: How to Render Million-Triangles Meshes
  2. Gregory Patch Subdivision Using DX11 Hardware Tessellation
  3. Reconstructing Surfaces of Particle-Based Fluids Using Anisotropic Kernels
  4. NVIDIA Updates its Direct3D 10 SDK (v10.6)
  5. AMD GPU Tesselation SDK

One thought on “Next-Gen Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces – Tesselation”

  1. mantas

    hei, thanks for sharing it was very interesting to see that slide show, only crapy thing, nvide shuld have put them with audio comentary for stupid people like me:)
    it was a bit too technical. would have been nice to see some more explanations, oh well, never the less, thanks.

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