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Platform independent optimisation of multi-resolution 3D content to enable universal media access

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Flurries of terminals with large differences in terminal capabilities currently consume information and multi-media content. Their different processing capabilities make it challenging to guarantee satisfactory quality in all possible situations. This paper proposes a systematic methodology for interactive 3D graphics applications to adapt the complexity of the content automatically to the terminal’s available resources. Our contribution is an off-line/online partitioned optimisation that increases the visual quality with respect to previous work at the same rendering cost, while the overhead of the optimisation is minimal.

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    Klaas Tack, Gauthier Lafruit, Francky Catthoor & Rudy Lauwereins

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    Klaas Tack, Francky Catthoor & Rudy Lauwereins

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Tack, K., Lafruit, G., Catthoor, F. et al. Platform independent optimisation of multi-resolution 3D content to enable universal media access. Visual Comput 22, 577–590 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-006-0036-0

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