Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis
Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis

Author: Michael F. Cohen

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2012-12-02

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0080515673

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The goal of image synthesis is to create, using the computer, a visual experience that is identical to what a viewer would experience when viewing a real environment. Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis offers the first comprehensive look at the radiosity method for image synthesis and the tools required to approach this elusive goal. Basic concepts and mathematical fundamentals underlying image synthesis and radiosity algorithms are covered thoroughly. (A basic knowledge of undergraduate calculus is assumed). The algorithms that have been developed to implement the radiosity method ranging from environment subdivision to final display are discussed. Successes and difficulties in implementing and using these algorithms are highlighted. Extensions to the basic radiosity method to include glossy surfaces, fog or smoke, and realistic light sources are also described. There are 16 pages of full colour images and over 100 illustrations to explain the development and show the results of the radiosity method. Results of applications of this new technology from a variety of fields are also included. Michael Cohen has worked in the area of realistic image synthesis since 1983 and was instrumental in the development of the radiosity method. He is currently an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. John Wallace is a software engineer at 3D/EYE, Inc., where he is the project leader for the development of Hewlett-Packard's ATRCore radiosity and ray tracing library. A chapter on the basic concepts of image synthesis is contributed by Patrick Hanrahan. He has worked on the topic of image synthesis at Pixar, where he was instrumental in the development of the Renderman software. He has also led research on the hierarchical methods at Princeton University, where he is an associate professor of computer science. All three authors have written numerous articles on radiosity that have appeared in the SIGGAPH proceedings and elsewhere. They have also taught the SIGGRAPH course on radiosity for 5 years. - The first comprehensive book written about radiosity - Features applications from the fields of computer graphics, architecture, industrial design, and related computer aided design technologies - Offers over 100 illustrations and 16 pages of full-color images demonstrating the results of radiosity methods - Contains a chapter authored by Pat Hanrahan on the basic concepts of image synthesis and a foreword by Donald Greenberg

Radiosity
Radiosity

Author: Ian Ashdown

Publisher:

Published: 1994-11-23

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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Once the exclusive domain of a handful of academic researchers working with high-powered graphics workstations, now you can use radiosity to create extremely realistic, true-color images using off-the-shelf personal computers. Radiosity offers the ability to accurately render diffuse reflections, color bleeding between surfaces, realistic shadows, and detailed shading within shadows. More than this, it can create photorealistic images that are impossible to achieve using conventional ray tracing techniques. This book offers you a unique opportunity to explore this technology in depth.

Computer Graphics
Computer Graphics

Author: Jeffrey J. McConnell

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780763722500

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Computer Graphics & Graphics Applications

LightWave 3D 8 Lighting
LightWave 3D 8 Lighting

Author: Nicholas Boughen

Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1556220944

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Light Wave is among the most powerful, complete, and reliable 3D tools in existence. Light Wave has become the visual effects software of choice in the film, television and broadcast industries.

Advanced Lighting and Materials with Shaders
Advanced Lighting and Materials with Shaders

Author: Kelly Dempski

Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1556222920

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The world around us is filled with subtle lighting effects, but until recently it was not possible to duplicate these real-world effects in computer games because of the limits of consumer graphics hardware. Advanced Lighting and Materials with Shaders explains the principles of lighting theory and discusses how to create realistic lighting that takes full advantage of the capabilities of modern hardware. Topics include the physics of light, raytracing and related techniques, objects and materials, lighting and reflectance models, implementing lights in shaders, spherical harmonic lighting, spherical harmonics in DirectX, and real-time radiosity.Upon reading this text, you will understand the underlying physics of light and energy; learn about the visual features of different materials and how they can be modeled for real-time graphics; find out about the different lighting models; discover how real-time techniques compare to ray tracing; learn to use the provided shader implementations to implement lights and realistic materials in real time.Accompanying CD-ROM includes all the code in the book with resources (models, textures, probes, etc.) needed to run the programs, along with the SDKs and libraries needed to build the programs and luminance Radiosity Studio, an advanced radiosity program.

Mathematical Tools in Computer Graphics with C# Implementations
Mathematical Tools in Computer Graphics with C# Implementations

Author: Alexandre Hardy

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9812791027

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Presents introductory and advanced topics in the field of computer graphics with mathematical descriptions and derivations. This book offers a balance of theory, applications, and code, and derives the underlying numerical methods and algorithms. It contains the classes in C# necessary for computer graphics, and offers an explanation of the code.

Rendering Techniques ’95
Rendering Techniques ’95

Author: Partick M. Hanrahan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 370919430X

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Following five successful workshops in the previous five years, the Rendering Workshop is now well established as a major international forum and one of the most reputable events in the field of realistic image synthesis. Including the best 31 papers which were carefully evaluated out of 68 submissions the book gives an overview on hierarchical radiosity, Monte Carlo radiosity, wavelet radiosity, nondiffuse radiosity, and radiosity performance improvements. Some papers deal with ray tracing, reconstruction techniques, volume rendering, illumination, user interface aspects, and importance sampling. Also included are two invited papers by James Arvo and Alain Fournier. As is the style of the Rendering Workshop, the contributions are mainly of algorithmic nature, often demonstrated by prototype implementations. From these implementations result numerous color images which are included as appendix. The Rendering Workshop proceedings are certainly an obligatory piece of literature for all scientists working in the rendering field, but they are also very valuable for the practitioner involved in the implementation of state of the art rendering system certainly influencing the scientific progress in this field.

Imaging and Vision Systems
Imaging and Vision Systems

Author: Jacques Blanc-Talon

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781590330333

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Imaging & Vision Systems - Theory, Assessment & Applications, Advances in Computation, Theory & Practice -- Volume 9

Rendering Techniques ’97
Rendering Techniques ’97

Author: Julie Dorsey

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 3709168589

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The book contains the proceedings of the 8th Eurographics Rendering Workshop, which took place from 16th to 18th June, 1997, in Saint Etienne, France. After a series of seven successful events the workshop is now well established as the major international forum in the field of rendering and illumination techniques. It brought together the experts of this field. Their recent research results are compiled in this proceedings together with many color images that demonstrate new ideas and techniques. This year we received a total of 63 submissions of which 28 were selected for the workshop after a period of careful reviewing and evaluation by the 27 mem bers of the international program committee. The quality of the submissions was again very high and, unfortunately, many interesting papers had to be rejected. In addition to regular papers the program also contains two invited lectures by Shenchang Eric Chen (Live Picture) and Per Christensen (Mental Images). The papers in this proceedings contain new research results in the areas of Finite-Element and Monte-Carlo illumination algorithms, image-based render ing, outdoor and natural illumination, error metrics, perception, texture and color handling, data acquisition for rendering, and efficient use of hardware. While some contributions report results from more efficient or elegant algo rithms, others pursue new and experimental approaches to find better solutions to the open problems in rendering.