Interactive stereoscopic rendering of voxel-based terrain

Abstract

Presents an interactive stereoscopic rendering algorithm of voxel-based terrain. It provides unambiguous depth information of a terrain scene by generating perspective images for a pair of eyes with a horizontal parallax. The left-eye image is generated using a fast ray-casting algorithm accelerated by exploiting a specific ray coherence method in the voxel-based terrain scene. The right-eye image is obtained by exploiting the frame coherence between the two views. Most of the pixel values are directly obtained from the left image by re-projection. The remaining pixels are computed by ray casting, which is further accelerated with ray coherence. An A-buffer is employed to reduce the image error caused by re-projection to non-integer pixel locations. Image-based task partitioning schemes are explored to effectively parallelize our algorithm on a multiprocessor.