Virtual reality (VR) can be defined as interactive computer graphics that provides viewer-centered perspective, large field of view and stereo. Head-mounted displays (HMDs) and BOOMs™ achieve these features with small display screens which move ...

Visual displays have evolved in several parallel application areas including television, computer monitors, graphics monitors, portable displays, projection displays and most recently, immersive displays. Film, too, has matured as the highest resolution ...

Japan owns 85 percent of the flat panel market. Who owns the rest? Who cares?!Japan, however, was not the driving force behind the technologies --- the majority of the contribution came from engineers from America, Britain, India and a handful of other ...

Several technologies are becoming serious challengers to the time-honored cathode ray tube (CRT) as the display of choice for desktop use. This shift alone will have an impact on graphics hardware and software, but there are potentially greater changes ...

Antialiasing of edges is often performed with the help of subpixel masks that indicate which parts of the pixel are covered by the object that has to be drawn. For this purpose, subpixel masks have to be generated during the scan conversion of an image. ...

We present a real-time robot motion planner that is fast and complete to a resolution. The technique is guaranteed to find a path if one exists at the resolution, and all paths returned are safe. The planner can handle any polyhedral geometry of robot ...

A vector generation method is described in which a high quality image rendering scheme is coupled with a high speed scan-conversion algorithm.The rendering scheme consists of two parts. First a prefiltering method is used to antialias the vectors. ...

This paper describes a system architecture that supports realtime generation of complex images, efficient generation of extremely high-quality images, and a smooth trade-off between the two.Based on the paradigm of integration, the architecture extends ...

The Appollo DN10000VS treats graphics as an integral part of the system architecture. Graphics requirements influence the entire system design. All floating-point computations for graphics are performed by the CPU(s), while rasterizing is handled by ...

This paper advances a means by which the conventions and methods of digital "painting" and image manipulation programs can be extended into the third dimension, providing sculpting tools that are natural and appropriate for a restricted but very useful ...

Good morning. My name is Tim Heidmann and I'd like to welcome you all to this panel, which is entitled Future Directions in Desktop Video, and I'd especially like to thank all you people who stayed up a little late on Thursday night to come to this panel. ...

Good afternoon. Boy, I can't see anything out there. I assume you all can see me -- thats why these lights are here. My name is Chris Schmandt from the Media Lab at MIT. I'm co-chairing this panel with Barry Arons, who is sitting over here. It's actually ...

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for taking time out from the parties to join us for one of the peripheral activities of SIGGRAPH. As you know, the panel that we're going to be holding this afternoon is entitled the Multi-Media ...

With widespread use of raster scan displays and the ever-increasing desire for faster interactivity, higher image complexity, and higher resolution in displayed images, several techniques have been proposed for rasterizing primitive graphical objects. ...

This paper introduces the architecture and initial algorithms for Pixel-Planes 5, a heterogeneous multi-computer designed both for high-speed polygon and sphere rendering (1M Phong-shaded triangles/second) and for supporting algorithm and application ...