SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Stochastic transparency provides a unified approach to orderindependent transparency, anti-aliasing, and deep shadow maps. It augments screen-door transparency using a random sub...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
We propose a Parallel Banding Algorithm (PBA) on the GPU to compute the exact Euclidean Distance Transform (EDT) for a binary image in 2D and higher dimensions. Partitioning the i...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
We present a new rigging and skinning method which uses a database of partial rigs extracted from a set of source characters. Given a target mesh and a set of joint locations, our...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Pixel processing is becoming increasingly expensive for real-time applications due to the complexity of today’s shaders and highresolution framebuffers. However, most shading re...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
In this paper a method for estimating a rigid skeleton, including skinning weights, skeleton connectivity, and joint positions, given a sparse set of example poses is presented. I...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
We present a new and simple data-driven technique for modeling 3D brushes for use in realistic painting programs. Our technique simplifies and accelerates simulation of the const...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Obscurance and Ambient Occlusion (AO) are popular techniques in both film and games that model how ambient light is shadowed. While it is largely a solved problem for static scen...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Volume caustics are intricate illumination patterns formed by light first interacting with a specular surface and subsequently being scattered inside a participating medium. Alth...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
We describe an interactive system featuring fluid-driven animation that responds to moving objects. Our system includes a GPUaccelerated Eulerian fluid solver that is suited for...
SI3D
2010
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2010
ACM
Virtual environments are typically textured by manually choosing an image to apply on each surface. This implies browsing through large sets of generic textures for each and every...