CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper presents a powerful variant of the ICP (Iterative Closest Point) algorithm for registering range images using a probability field. The probability field (p-field) repre...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
3D texture-based volume rendering is a popular way of realizing direct volume visualization on graphics hardware. However, the slice-oriented texture memory layout of many current...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
Photon tracing and density estimation are well established techniques in global illumination computation and rendering of high-quality animation sequences. Using traditional densi...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
Enabling group collaboration is important in computer graphics today. We have developed a framework that supports multiple pointing devices to explore the collaborative utility of...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper we extend the reuse of paths to the shot from a moving light source. In the classical algorithm new paths have to be cast from each new position of a light source. W...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
Creating long animation sequences with non-trivial repetitions is a time consuming and often difficult task. This is true for 2D images and even more true for 3D sequences. Based ...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper presents a new method of combining dynamic control of LOD and conservative occlusion culling based on a new hierarchical data structure of polygons. Our method is effec...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper, we present a versatile and robust model for geometrically complex deformable solids. Our approach can be applied to deformable tetrahedral meshes and to deformable ...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
Efficient global illumination computation in dynamically changing environments is an important practical problem. In high-quality animation rendering costly "final gathering&...
CGI
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2004
IEEE
We present a new algorithm for computing a polygonal surface from a union of balls. The method computes and connects the singular points of a given union of balls in an efficient ...