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Single-pass GPU solid voxelization for real-time applications

Elmar Eisemann and Xavier Decoret

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In this paper, we present a single-pass technique to voxelize the interior of watertight 3D models with high resolution grids in realtime during a single rendering pass. Further, we develop a filtering algorithm to build a density estimate that allows the deduction of normals from the voxelized model. This is achieved via a dense packing of information using bitwise arithmetic. We demonstrate the versatility of the method by presenting several applications like translucency effects, CSG operations, interaction for particle simulations, and morphological operations. The speed of our method opens up the road for previously impossible approaches in realtime: 300,000 polygons are voxelized into a grid of one billion voxels at > 90 Hz with a recent graphics card.

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Elmar Eisemann and Xavier Decoret, Single-pass GPU solid voxelization for real-time applications, In Proceedings of Graphics Interface, 322, pp. 73–80, 2008.

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@inproceedings{bib:eisemann:2008,
    author       = { Eisemann, Elmar and Decoret, Xavier },    
    title        = { Single-pass GPU solid voxelization for real-time applications },
    booktitle    = { In Proceedings of Graphics Interface },
    volume       = { 322 },
    year         = { 2008 },
    pages        = { 73--80 },
    publisher    = { Canadian Information Processing Society },
    dblp         = { conf/graphicsinterface/EisemannD08 },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/617 },
}