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Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Roy Hall

    1. Wavefront Technologies, Santa Barbara, USA

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Part of the book series: Monographs in Visual Communication (VISUALCOMM)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Roy Hall
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Illumination Process

    • Roy Hall
    Pages 9-43

  4. Perceptual Response

    • Roy Hall
    Pages 45-62

  5. Illumination Models

    • Roy Hall
    Pages 63-114

  6. Image Display

    • Roy Hall
    Pages 115-153

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 155-282
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About this book

In a very broad sense the historical development of computer graphics can be considered in three phases, each a giant step down the road towards "realistic" computer generated images. The first, during the late 1960's and early 1970's, can perhaps be characterized as the "wire frame" era. Basically pictures were composed of lines. Considerable em­ phasis was placed on "real time" interactive manipulation of the model. As models became more complex and as raster technology developed, eliminating the hidden lines or hidden surfaces from the image became critical for visual understanding. This requirement resulted in the second phase of computer graphics, the "hidden surface" era, that developed during the 1970's and early 1980's. The names associated with hidden surface algorithms read like a who's who of computer graphics. The cul­ mination of the hidden surface era and the beginning of the current and third era in computer graphics, the "rendering" era, was Turner Whitted's incorporation of a global illumination model into the ray trac­ ing algorithm. Now the goal was not just to generate an image, but to generate a realistic appearing image.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Wavefront Technologies, Santa Barbara, USA

    Roy Hall

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Illumination and Color in Computer Generated Imagery

  • Authors: Roy Hall

  • Series Title: Monographs in Visual Communication

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3526-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8141-2Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3526-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-6897

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 282

  • Topics: Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision

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