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VISUALIZATION
1999
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
New Quadric Metric for Simplifying Meshes with Appearance Attributes
Complex triangle meshes arise naturally in many areas of computer graphics and visualization. Previous work has shown that a quadric error metric allows fast and accurate geometri...
Hugues Hoppe
FOCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Linguistic Characterization of Bounded Oracle Computation and Probabilistic Polynomial Time
We present a higher-order functional notation for polynomial-time computation with arbitrary 0; 1-valued oracle. This provides a linguistic characterization for classes such as np...
John C. Mitchell, Mark Mitchell, Andre Scedrov
ISCA
1998
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
15 years 10 months ago
An Analysis of Correlation and Predictability: What Makes Two-Level Branch Predictors Work
Pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions is one of the most serious problems facing the designer of a deeply pipelined, superscalar processor. Many branch predictors have bee...
Marius Evers, Sanjay J. Patel, Robert S. Chappell,...
VLDB
1999
ACM
89views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 10 months ago
Physical Data Independence, Constraints, and Optimization with Universal Plans
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
Alin Deutsch, Lucian Popa, Val Tannen
CAPTECH
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Goal-Directed Navigation for Animated Characters Using Real-Time Path Planning and Control
Abstract. This paper presents a new technique for computing collisionfree navigation motions from task-level commands for animated human characters in interactive virtual environme...
James J. Kuffner Jr.