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Compositing digital images

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SIGGRAPH '84: Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

Pages 253 - 259

https://doi.org/10.1145/800031.808606

Published: 01 January 1984 Publication History

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Most computer graphics pictures have been computed all at once, so that the rendering program takes care of all computations relating to the overlap of objects. There are several applications, however, where elements must be rendered separately, relying on compositing techniques for the anti-aliased accumulation of the full image. This paper presents the case for four-channel pictures, demonstrating that a matte component can be computed similarly to the color channels. The paper discusses guidelines for the generation of elements and the arithmetic for their arbitrary compositing.

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Compositing digital images
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
  2. Computer graphics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management

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SIGGRAPH '84: Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques

January 1984

264 pages

ISBN:0897911385

DOI:10.1145/800031

Seminal graphics: pioneering efforts that shaped the field, Volume 1
July 1998
460 pages
ISBN:158113052X
DOI:10.1145/280811
Editor:
Rosalee Wolfe
DePaul University
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Volume 18, Issue 3
July 1984
264 pages
ISSN:0097-8930
DOI:10.1145/964965
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