One of the challenging areas in real-time infrared scene generation is rendering gaseous and particulate volumes such as missile and aircraft exhaust plumes. New research in particle graphics has shown potential for improving the spatial/temporal fidelity of images produced by present systems. To apply particle graphics in real-time applications, new techniques were developed to leverage the resources in modern computing platforms, particularly the separate pipelines for general-purpose computing and 3D graphics. By taking advantage of these combined resources, the new method has been used to demonstrate real-time frame rates on low-end commercial systems. The rendering software internally computes, stores, and blends pixel intensities in floating point precision so that pixel accuracy is maintained over many decades of flow field emission level. The rendering scheme is scalable, providing a continuum of speed-fidelity tradeoffs across different computing platforms. The rendering approach has also been extended to incorporate moving particles in order to inject dynamic characteristics such as flow and turbulence into the IR imagery, providing a capability not available in current hardware-in-the-loop systems.


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    Title :

    Real-time particle graphics for infrared (IR) scene generation


    Contributors:
    Tourtellott, J. (author) / Coker, C.F. (author) / Crow, D.R. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    8 Seiten, 5 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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