Point-Cloud Rendering
A new class of rendering primitives have recently been introduced to address this problem. Key Attibutes:
  • Hierarchy
  • Incremental Refinement
  • Compact Reperesentation
    (differental encoding)
Stanford's QSplat Renderer


130,712 Splats, 132 mS
259,975 Splats, 215 mS

1,017,149 Splats, 722 mS
14,835,967 Splats, 8308 mS
Lecture 6   Slide 32   6.837 Fall '00