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Survey of techniques to render detailed surfaces

ABSTRACT:
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Computer graphics applications, in special games and simulators,
thrive to create high quality environments which we can not
differentiate from the real world. One of the features that
determines the level of realism in a virtual environment is the
level of details of the objects meshes.

Meshes of objects from the real world usually need millions of
triangles to be accurately represented on a computational environment.
However, as the complexity of the objects meshes increase, the
performance tends to decrease. To solve this problem many techniques
were proposed, simulating details on flat surfaces without really
increasing the surface geometry. In this work, we present a survey
about the main techniques that simulate detaildes surfaces, analysing
and comparing features like behavior, visual cues handled, advantages
and disadvantages and an efficient environment to use each technique.

All the  results acquired could be used to help in choosing the best
technique for each different application.