Book

Level of Detail for 3D Graphics.  David Luebke, Martin Reddy, Jonathan Cohen, Amitabh Varshney, Benjamin Watson, and Robert Huebner.  Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco (July 2002). Visit the accompanying web site.

Papers

	Perceptually Driven Simplification for Interactive Rendering.  David Luebke and Ben Hallen, Rendering Techniques, Ed. Steven Gortler and Karol Myszkowski, Springer-Verlag, London (June 2001).
	View-Dependent Particles for Interactive Non-Photorealistic Rendering. Derek Cornish, Andrea Rowan, and David Luebke, Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2001 (June 2001).
	A Developer’s Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms.  David Luebke, IEEE Computer Graphics &Applications (May 2001).
	View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polygonal Environments. David Luebke and Carl Erikson, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97, ACM Press, NY (August 1997).
	Portals and Mirrors: Simple, Fast Evaluation of Potentially Visible Sets, David P. Luebke and Chris Georges, Proceedings of the 1995 Symposium on Interactive 3-D Graphics, ACM Press, NY (April, 1995). Here is a postscript version (but see the html version above for the images). Note: see the pfPortals library and my visibility page.

Short Papers and Technical Sketches

Technical Reports

	Perceptually Driven Simplification of Lit, Textured Meshes.  David Luebke, Jonathan D. Cohen, Nathaniel Williams, Mike Kelley, and Brenden Schubert, University of Virginia Technical Report CS-2002-03 (2002).   Submitted to IEEE Visualization 2002. Also available: a very large (98 Mb) MPEG video.
	Perceptually Driven Interactive Rendering.  Ben Hallen and David Luebke, University of Virginia Technical Report CS-2001-01 (2001).
	Perceptually Driven Simplification Using Gaze-Directed Rendering. David Luebke, Ben Hallen, Dale Newfield, and Benjamin Watson, University of Virginia Technical Report CS-2000-04 (2000). A 22 MB illustrative video (you'll need the DIVX codec).
	Robust View-Dependent Simplification for Very Large-Scale CAD Visualization.  David Luebke, University of Virginia Technical Report CS-99-33 (1999).
	My dissertation:  View-Dependent Simplification of Arbitrary Polygonal Environments. David Luebke. University of North Carolina Department of Computer Science Technical Report #TR98-029 (1998). Available in postscript (68 Mb) or PDF (19 Mb). The figures are slightly more clear in the postscript version.

• Clarke, Brian, and D. Luebke.  Design and Implementation of a Prototype Memory Management System for Geometric Data in Out-of-Core Simplification, University of Virginia Technical Report CS-2000-18, 2000. 

• Cornish, D., and Luebke, D.  View-Dependent Particles for Non-Photorealistic Rendering. University of Virginia Technical Report CS-2000-11. 

• A Survey of Polygonal Simplification Algorithms. David Luebke. UNC Department of Computer Science Technical Report #TR97-045. December, 1997.
• Hierarchical Structures For Dynamic Polygonal Simplification. David Luebke. UNC Department of Computer Science Technical Report #TR96-006. January, 1996.
  • This technical report introduced the concepts of view-dependent simplification described in detail by the SIGGRAPH paper above.
  • Click here for a postscript version (but see the html version above for the images).