SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
This paper describes VOL2, an interactive general-purpose volume renderer based on ray casting and implemented on Pixel-Planes 5, a distributed-memory, message-passing multicomput...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
Interactive graphics applications have long been challenging graphics system designers by demanding machines that can provide ever increasing polygon rendering performance. Anothe...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
We introduce a promising new approach to rigid body dynamic simulation called impulse-based simulation. The method is well suited to modeling physical systems with large numbers o...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
A visual navigation system is described which uses texture mapped primitives to represent clusters of objects to maintain high and approximately constant frame rates. In cases whe...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
We describe an approach for determining potentially visible sets in dynamic architectural models. Our scheme divides the models into cells and portals, computing a conservative es...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
The NanoManipulator system has been expanded from a virtualreality interface for a specific scanning tunneling microscope to include control of atomic force microscopes. The curre...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
In this paper, a method of encapsulating camera tasks into well defined units called “camera modules” is described. Through this encapsulation, camera modules can be programm...
SI3D
1995
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1995
ACM
One of the main techniques used by software renderers to produce stunningly realistic images is programmable shading—executing an arbitrarily complex program to compute the colo...