Point-Based Graphics

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INTRODUCTION

Gross Markus,     Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Haldeneggsteig4/Weinbergstrasse, CH - 8092 Zürich, Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]. E-mail address: [e-mail]

Pfister Hanspeter,     MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]. E-mail address: [e-mail]

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OVERVIEW

Markus Gross and Hanspeter Pfister

Point primitives have experienced a major renaissance in recent years, and considerable research has been devoted to the efficient representation, modeling, processing, and rendering of point-sampled geometry. There are two main reasons for this new interest in points: on one hand, we have witnessed ...