RT
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1997
Springer
: Realistic image synthesis research involves the simulation of visible light propagation within an environment with a view to computing an image that evokes a similar visual respo...
RT
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1997
Springer
Abstract: An object space algorithm for computing shadows in dynamic scenes illuminated by area light sources is presented. A mesh with the shadow boundaries as well as other disco...
RT
1997
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
1997
Springer
Recently the light-field and lumigraph systems have been proposed as general methods of representing the visual information present in a scene. These methods represent this infor...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
Sketching communicates ideas rapidly through approximate visual images with low overhead (pencil and paper), no need for precision or specialized knowledge, and ease of low-level ...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
Solid texturing is a powerful way to add detail to the surface of rendered objects. Perlin's "noise" is a 3D basis function used in some of the most dramatic and us...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
This paper presents new algorithms and techniques for rendering parametric free-form surfaces in pen and ink. In particular, we introduce the idea of "controlled-density hatc...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
Accurate control of streamline density is key to producing several effective forms of visualization of 2-dimensional vector fields. We introduce a technique that uses an energy fu...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
A classical problem of imaging--the matting problem--is separation of a non-rectangular foreground image from a (usually) rectangular background image--for example, in a film fram...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
We present a new method that utilizes path coherence to accelerate walkthroughs of geometrically complex static scenes. As a preprocessing step, our method constructs a BSP-tree t...
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1996
ACM
Image morphing techniques can generate compelling 2D transitions between images. However, differences in object pose or viewpoint often cause unnatural distortions in image morphs...