Links
Project Links
These links point to my online articles, which explain just about all you need to know about my GLPlanet and GLCloud projects. They also contain older versions of the GLPlanet code.
| Article #1 | A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part One: Generating Planetary Bodies |
| Article #2 | A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part Two: Rendering Planetary Bodies |
| Article #3 | A Real-Time Procedural Universe, Part Three: Matters of Scale |
| Article #4 | Real-Time Atmospheric Scattering |
Related Links
These links point to a whole bunch of useful sites.
| GamaSutra | A good source of game programming articles. |
| GameDev.Net | Another good source of game programming articles. |
| FlipCode | Yet another good source of game programming articles. |
| Hugo Elias's Home Page | This site contains a number of older, but still very good, articles related to graphics programming. Make sure you check out the cloud demo. |
| OpenGL | The place to go for OpenGL news and links. |
| The Virtual Terrain Project | A one-stop site for all your terrain/world modeling and rendering needs. If you liked my articles, then you need to check this site out. Make sure you spend plenty of time going through the links. |
| NatureWizard | A site dedicated to the graphical simulation of nature. This site also hosts some of my articles. |
| Science@Nasa | Not a programming site, but anyone interested in my project should be interested in this site (even if the articles are intended for a younger audience). |
| ROAMing Terrain | The original publication of the ROAM (Real-time Optimally Adapting Mesh) algorithm. |
| Hugues Hoppe's Home Page | This site has a lot of good publications on dynamic LOD schemes (among other things). |
| Diamond Basics | A dyanmic LOD algorithm for terrain based on diamonds. |
| Fast Terrain Rendering Using Geometrical MipMapping | A dyanmic LOD algorithm for terrain based on geo-mipmaps. |
| Real-Time, Continuous Level of Detail Rendering of Height Fields | A dyanmic LOD algorithm for terrain using a custom mesh simplification algorithm. |
| Rendering Planets In Real Time | An interesting technique on handling dynamic LOD terrain using patches of triangles for better video hardware acceleration. |
| SkyWorks | An excellent site on real-time volumetric cloud rendering using impostors. |
| Efficient Impostor Manipulation for Real-Time Visualization of Urban Scenery | An article explaining the use of impostors to render detailed cities in real-time. |
| Real-Time Tree Rendering | An article explaining the use of impostors to quickly render detailed trees. |
Unrelated Links
These are more personal links.
| The Noble Piglet | This is a shameless plug of my wife's web site. ;-) |
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