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A Ray Tracing Simulation of a Radiositv Simulation [About the Cover]
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 11, Issue 1•Jan. 1991, pp 6-7 • https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.1991.10003The cover picture is not a photograph of real objects. It is a ray-traced image of a fictitious workstation environment displaying a radiosity solution of a complex, nonexistent factory scene. The picture was generated using several of the advanced ...
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Predicting Appearance from Measured Microgeometry of Metal Surfaces
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 35, Issue 1•December 2015, Article No.: 9, pp 1-13 • https://doi.org/10.1145/2815618The visual appearance of many materials is created by micro-scale details of their surface geometry. In this article, we investigate a new approach to capturing the appearance of metal surfaces without reflectance measurements, by deriving microfacet ...
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Complex Luminaires: Illumination and Appearance Rendering
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 34, Issue 3•April 2015, Article No.: 26, pp 1-15 • https://doi.org/10.1145/2714571Simulating a complex luminaire such as a chandelier is expensive and slow, even using state-of-the-art algorithms. A more practical alternative is to use precomputation to accelerate rendering. Prior approaches cached information on an aperture surface ...
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A framework for the experimental comparison of solar and skydome illumination
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 33, Issue 6•November 2014, Article No.: 180, pp 1-12 • https://doi.org/10.1145/2661229.2661259The illumination and appearance of the solar/skydome is critical for many applications in computer graphics, computer vision, and daylighting studies. Unfortunately, physically accurate measurements of this rapidly changing illumination source are ...
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An augmented multi-touch system using hand and finger identification
CHI EA '12: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems•May 2012, pp 1431-1432• https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2212471With the advent of devices such as smart phones and tablet computers, multi-touch applications are rapidly becoming commonplace. However, existing multi-touch sensors are not able to report which finger, or which hand, is responsible for each of the ...
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Prefiltered Cross-Section Occluders
PACIFIC_GRAPHICS '10: Proceedings of the 2010 18th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications•September 2010, pp 117-124• https://doi.org/10.1109/PacificGraphics.2010.23We introduce an impostor-based visibility technique to provide approximate, average visibility for point-to-cluster and cluster-to-cluster visibility queries. Processing each object in a view-independent manner allows us to generate a mip-map-like ...
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Automated Vascular Geometric Analysis of Aortic Aneurysms
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Volume 28, Issue 3•May 2008, pp 76-86 • https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2008.44An automated geometric analysis procedure uses volumetric computerized tomography scan data to produce a fully defined analytical model of the patient's arterial geometry with minimal user interaction. This model can be a powerful tool for surgery ...
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Multidimensional lightcuts
SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers•July 2006, pp 1081-1088• https://doi.org/10.1145/1179352.1141997Multidimensional lightcuts is a new scalable method for efficiently rendering rich visual effects such as motion blur, participating media, depth of field, and spatial anti-aliasing in complex scenes. It introduces a flexible, general rendering ...
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Multidimensional lightcuts
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 25, Issue 3•July 2006, pp 1081-1088 • https://doi.org/10.1145/1141911.1141997Multidimensional lightcuts is a new scalable method for efficiently rendering rich visual effects such as motion blur, participating media, depth of field, and spatial anti-aliasing in complex scenes. It introduces a flexible, general rendering ...
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Accurate Direct Illumination Using Iterative Adaptive Sampling
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 12, Issue 3•May 2006, pp 353-364 • https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2006.41This paper introduces a new multipass algorithm for efficiently computing direct illumination in scenes with many lights and complex occlusion. Images are first divided into 8\times 8 pixel blocks and for each point to be shaded within a block, a ...
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Lightcuts: a scalable approach to illumination
SIGGRAPH '05: ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers•July 2005, pp 1098-1107• https://doi.org/10.1145/1186822.1073318Lightcuts is a scalable framework for computing realistic illumination. It handles arbitrary geometry, non-diffuse materials, and illumination from a wide variety of sources including point lights, area lights, HDR environment maps, sun/sky models, and ...
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Lightcuts: a scalable approach to illumination
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 24, Issue 3•July 2005, pp 1098-1107 • https://doi.org/10.1145/1073204.1073318Lightcuts is a scalable framework for computing realistic illumination. It handles arbitrary geometry, non-diffuse materials, and illumination from a wide variety of sources including point lights, area lights, HDR environment maps, sun/sky models, and ...
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Perceptual illumination components: a new approach to efficient, high quality global illumination rendering
SIGGRAPH '04: ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Papers•August 2004, pp 742-749• https://doi.org/10.1145/1186562.1015795In this paper we introduce a new perceptual metric for efficient, high quality, global illumination rendering. The metric is based on a rendering-by-components framework in which the direct, and indirect diffuse, glossy, and specular light transport ...
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Perceptual illumination components: a new approach to efficient, high quality global illumination rendering
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 23, Issue 3•August 2004, pp 742-749 • https://doi.org/10.1145/1015706.1015795In this paper we introduce a new perceptual metric for efficient, high quality, global illumination rendering. The metric is based on a rendering-by-components framework in which the direct, and indirect diffuse, glossy, and specular light transport ...
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Combining edges and points for interactive high-quality rendering
SIGGRAPH '03: ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers•July 2003, pp 631-640• https://doi.org/10.1145/1201775.882318This paper presents a new interactive rendering and display technique for complex scenes with expensive shading, such as global illumination. Our approach combines sparsely sampled shading (points) and analytically computed discontinuities (edges) to ...
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Combining edges and points for interactive high-quality rendering
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 22, Issue 3•July 2003, pp 631-640 • https://doi.org/10.1145/882262.882318This paper presents a new interactive rendering and display technique for complex scenes with expensive shading, such as global illumination. Our approach combines sparsely sampled shading (points) and analytically computed discontinuities (edges) to ...
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Detail synthesis for image-based texturing
I3D '03: Proceedings of the 2003 symposium on Interactive 3D graphics•April 2003, pp 171-175• https://doi.org/10.1145/641480.641512Image-based modeling techniques permit the creation of visually interesting geometric models from photographs. But traditional image-based texturing (IBT) techniques often result in extracted textures of poor, uneven quality. This paper introduces a ...
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Enhancing and optimizing the render cache
Interactive rendering often requires the use of simplified shading algorithms with reduced illumination fidelity. Higher quality rendering algorithms are usually too slow for interactive use. The render cache is a technique to bridge this performance gap ...
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Local illumination environments for direct lighting acceleration
Computing high-quality direct illumination in scenes with many lights is an open area of research. This paper presents a world-space caching mechanism called local illumination environments that enables interactive direct illumination in complex scenes ...
