IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

This issue's cover features art by Michael Eichhorn. In this article, Eichhorn describes his work and his process.

Child tracking is just one of a host of mobile-phone applications that use Global Positioning System technology. Other applications include those for tracking the whereabouts of friends, pets, and employees, and those that let farmers survey and ...

This article studies some of the theories used in abstract painting and their existing and potential applications to information visualization. The authors relate the three dimensions of painting--form, color, and texture--various visual cognition ...

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Recent developments in computer vision and computer graphics, especially in such areas as multiple-view geometry and image-based rendering, are making it possible to generate 3D models of dynamic scenes from multiple cameras at video frame rates. The ...

Digital content production traditionally requires highly skilled artists and animators to first manually craft shape and appearance models and then instill the models with a believable performance. Motion capture technology is now increasingly used to ...

Digitally recording dynamic events, such as a sports event, a ballet performance, and a lecture, for experiencing in a spatiotemporally distant and arbitrary setting requires 4D capture: three dimensions for their geometry and appearance over the fourth ...

A novel texture synthesis method produces high-quality results by introducing a multiscaled texture similarity measurement. Compared with other multiscaled methods, this approach focuses on measuring texture properties at different scales ranging from ...

Illustrative rendering is a widely used visualization technique to display conceptual information, describe problems, and give insight to solve them efficiently in science, engineering, and the arts. Providing users with automated tools to generate ...

Attribute Blocks is a new tool for visualizing multiple continuously varying attributes across a region of geospace. Most of the explanations and illustrations of the technique in this article employ climatology data sets along with results computed by ...

A number of unsolved questions concern the deep integration of 3D objects as new type of generalized document into digital libraries. In a few years, massive problems in 3D data management will be the immediate consequence as the widespread use of 3D ...

Jim Blinn continues his discussion on cubic equations.

The key to enhancing perception of the virtual world is improving mechanisms for interacting with that world. Through providing a sense of touch, haptic rendering is one such mechanism. Many methods efficiently display force between rigid objects, but ...

A look at new products on the market, including the Screen Pointer by the Feather Pointer Company, optical media for the Sony XDCAM HD tapeless video system, the AD57xx converters by Analog Devices, Softimage XSI 6 3D animation and character creation ...