How Batching via Texture Atlases Works

Optimizing Draw Call Batching Using Transient Data-Guided Texture Atlases

Rendering a large number of 2D textures in real-time requires reducing the overhead of a large number of draw calls on the CPU caused by binding different textures when drawing. Texture atlases are used to avoid switching textures by packing textures into one larger texture before rendering. Graphics hardware APIs limit the size of a texture, so textures need to be partitioned into multiple atl...

Batching Using Texture Atlases

Development of an Anaglyph Anatomical Atlas of Rabbit as a New Generation of Printable 3D Anatomical Atlases

Introduction: To improve anatomical atlases, we tried to create a printable 3D atlas of rabbit's anatomy based on the Anaglyph. Methods: In this study, twenty white rabbits euthanized and dissected. All 3D images were reconstructed by means of "stereo photo maker (SPM®)" software. Results: By this atlas, users can easily understand nomenclature, the topography and, certainly, the transpo...

Real-Time Procedural Solid Texturing

Shortly after its introduction in 1985, procedural solid texturing became a must-have tool in the production-quality graphics of the motion-picture industry. Now, over fifteen years later, we are finally able to provide this feature for the real-time consumer graphics used in videogames and virtual environments. A texture atlas is used to create a 2-D texture map of the 3-D solid texture coordi...

Heuristic approach to automatic texture atlas composition

We present a solution for a variant of the 2D containment problem, to create a texture atlas. The texture atlas is an efficient color representation for a given VRML scene. It contains a composition of several texture images stored in one file. The containment problem is the question how to place a set of shapes into a “container shape” without overlapping, while minimizing the area of the cont...