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Fig. 31.12 The local image of the surface geometry is composed via z-value comparison with the
remote rendered image of the isosurface. The left image is composed with lossless compression of
depth values and right image with JPEG compression which leads to artifacts
single resolution or multiresolution data format [ 18 ]. Using progressive multireso-
lution approaches has the advantage that the client can already start rendering on a
coarse representation before the high resolution geometry is available. This consid-
erably reduces the latency waiting for first results. The initial level gets finer with
each new level received from the server.
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