A Method for Modeling and Rendering Dunes with Wind-Ripples
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This paper proposes a method for modeling and rendering realistic desert scenes. A desert terrain includes sand dunes and wind ripples. We use two types of scale models to form them. We render the dunes with the wind-ripples by bump-mapping using LODs (Levels of Detail).
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تاریخ انتشار 2000