Rendering Techniques ’98

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Light Scattering Models for The Realistic Rendering of Natural Scenes

   • Tomoyuki Nishita

   Pages 1-10

3. A New Change of Variables for Efficient BRDF Representation

   • Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz

   Pages 11-22

4. Approximating Reflectance Functions using Neural Networks

   • David Gargan, Francis Neelamkavil

   Pages 23-34

5. A new Form Factor Analogy and its Application to Stochastic Global Illumination Algorithms

   • Robert F. Tobler, László Neumann, Mateu Sbert, Werner Purgathofer

   Pages 35-44

6. An ambient light illumination model

   • S. Zhukov, A. Iones, G. Kronin

   Pages 45-55

7. Computing the Approximate Visibility Map, with Applications to Form Factors and Discontinuity Meshing

   • A. James Stewart, Tasso Karkanis

   Pages 57-68

8. Ray Tracing of Subdivision Surfaces

   • Leif P. Kobbelt, K. Daubert, H-P. Seidel

   Pages 69-80

9. Acquiring Input for Rendering at Appropriate Levels of Detail: Digitizing a Pietà

   • Holly Rushmeier, Fausto Bernardini, Joshua Mittleman, Gabriel Taubin

   Pages 81-92

10. Interactively Modeling with Photogrammetry

    • Pierre Poulin, Mathieu Ouimet, Marie-Claude Frasson

    Pages 93-104

11. Efficient View-Dependent Image-Based Rendering with Projective Texture-Mapping

    • Paul Debevec, Yizhou Yu, George Borshukov

    Pages 105-116

12. Uniformly Sampled Light Fields

    • Emilio Camahort, Apostolos Lerios, Donald Fussell

    Pages 117-130

13. Forward Shadow Mapping

    • Hansong Zhang

    Pages 131-138

14. Efficient Image Generation for Multiprojector and Multisurface Displays

    • Ramesh Raskar, Matt Cutts, Greg Welch, Wolfgang Stürzlinger

    Pages 139-144

15. Per-Object Image Warping with Layered Impostors

    • Gernot Schaufler

    Pages 145-156

16. Interactive Volumetric Textures

    • Alexandre Meyer, Fabrice Neyret

    Pages 157-168

17. Efficiently Rendering Macro Geometric Surface Structures with Bi-Directional Texture Functions

    • Jean-Michel Dischler

    Pages 169-180

18. Point Sample Rendering

    • J. P. Grossman, William J. Dally

    Pages 181-192

19. Rendering hyper-sprites in real time

    • Gavin Miller, Marc Mondesir

    Pages 193-198

20. Automatic Calculation of Soft Shadow Textures for Fast, High Quality Radiosity

    • Cyril Soler, François X. Sillion

    Pages 199-210

Some of the best current research on realistic rendering is included in this volume. It emphasizes the current "hot topics” in this field: image based rendering, and efficient local and global-illumination calculations. In the first of these areas, there are several contributions on real-world model acquisition and display, on using image-based techniques for illumination and on efficient ways to parameterize and compress images or light fields, as well as on clever uses of texture and compositing hardware to achieve image warping and 3D surface textures. In global and local illumination, there are contributions on extending the techniques beyond diffuse reflections, to include specular and more general angle dependent reflection functions, on efficiently representing and approximating these reflection functions, on representing light sources and on approximating visibility and shadows. Finally, there are two contributions on how to use knowledge about human perception to concentrate the work of accurate rendering only where it will be noticed, and a survey of computer graphics techniques used in the production of a feature length computer-animated film with full 3D characters.

• 3D
• 3D graphics
• Mapping
• Monte Carlo
• Radiosity
• compositing
• computer graphics
• form
• model
• modeling
• reflection
• rendering

• INRIA, Grenoble, France

  George Drettakis

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA

  Nelson Max

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