Integrating Occlusion Culling and Hardware Instancing for Efficient Real-time Rendering of Building Information Models

Mikael Johansson

2013

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient approach for integrating occlusion culling and hardware instancing. The work is primarily targeted at Building Information Models (BIM), which typically share characteristics addressed by these two acceleration techniques separately – high level of occlusion and frequent reuse of building components. Together, these two acceleration techniques complement each other and allows large and complex BIMs to be rendered in real-time. Specifically, the proposed method takes advantage of temporal coherence and uses a lightweight data transfer strategy to provide an efficient hardware instancing implementation. Compared to only using occlusion culling, additional speedups of 1.25x-1.7x is achieved for rendering large BIMs received from real-world projects. These speedups are measured in viewpoints that represents the worst case scenarios in terms of rendering performance when only occlusion culling is utilized.

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Johansson M. (2013). Integrating Occlusion Culling and Hardware Instancing for Efficient Real-time Rendering of Building Information Models . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-46-4, pages 197-206. DOI: 10.5220/0004302801970206


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp13,
author={Mikael Johansson},
title={Integrating Occlusion Culling and Hardware Instancing for Efficient Real-time Rendering of Building Information Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={197-206},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004302801970206},
isbn={978-989-8565-46-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications and International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2013)
TI - Integrating Occlusion Culling and Hardware Instancing for Efficient Real-time Rendering of Building Information Models
SN - 978-989-8565-46-4
AU - Johansson M.
PY - 2013
SP - 197
EP - 206
DO - 10.5220/0004302801970206