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Photorealism in Computer Graphics

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Kadi Bouatouch

    1. IRISA, Rennes Cedex, France

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  2. Christian Bouville

    1. CCETT, Cesson-Sévigné, France

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Part of the book series: Focus on Computer Graphics (FOCUS COMPUTER)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Invited Paper

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Trends in Radiosity for Image Synthesis

      • John R. Wallace
      Pages 3-13

  3. Efficient Ray Tracing Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Incremental Ray Tracing

      • Koichi Murakami, Katsuhiko Hirota
      Pages 17-32

    3. Parametric Surfaces and Ray Tracing

      • Luc Biard
      Pages 33-53

  4. Theory of Global Illumination Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. A Theoretical Analysis of Global Illumination Models

      • Christian Bouville, Kadi Bouatouch, Pierre Tellier, Xavier Pueyo
      Pages 57-71

    3. Physically Based Lighting Calculations for Computer Graphics: A Modern Perspective

      • Peter Shirley
      Pages 73-83

    4. Efficient Radiosity Methods for Non-Separable Reflectance Models

      • Lazlo Neumann, Attila Neumann
      Pages 85-97

  5. Photometric Algorithms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. A Progressive Ray-Tracing-based Radiosity with General Reflectance Functions

      • Christophe Schlick, Bertrand LeSaec
      Pages 101-113

    3. A Two-Pass Radiosity Method for Bézier Patches

      • Arjan J. F. Kok, Celal Yilmaz, Laurens H. J. Bierens
      Pages 115-124

  6. Form Factor Calculation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. The Hemisphere Radiosity Method: A Tale of Two Algorithms

      • Stephen N. Spencer
      Pages 127-135

    3. Exploiting Coherence for Clipping and View Transformations in Radiosity Algorithms

      • Joseppe Vilaplana, Xavier Pueyo
      Pages 137-149

    4. A Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm for Unoccluded Environments

      • Pat Hanrahan, David Salzman
      Pages 151-169

    5. Fast Radiosity by Parallelization

      • Werner Purgathofer, Michael Zeiller
      Pages 171-181

  7. Physics Based Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Newton’s Colors: Simulating Interference Phenomena in Realistic Image Synthesis

      • Brian E. Smits, Gary W. Meyer
      Pages 185-194
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About this book

The goal of this book is to present the most advanced research works in realistic computer generated images. It is made up of the papers presented during a Eurographics workshop that has been held in Rennes (France) on June 1990. Although realism in computer graphics has existed for many years, we have considered that two research directions can now clearly be identified. One makes use of empirical methods to efficiently create images that look real. As opposed to this approach, the other orientation makes use of physics to produce images that are exact representations of the real world (at the expense of additional processing time), hence the term photosimulation which indeed was the subject of this book. The objectives of this workshop were to assemble experts from physics and computer graphics in order to contribute to the introduction of physics-based approaches in the field of computer generated images. The fact that this workshop was the first entirely devoted to this topic was a bet and fortunately it turned out that it was a success. The contents of this book is organized in five chapters: Efficient Ray Tracing Meth­ ods, Theory of Global Illumination Models, Photometric Algorithms, Form-Factor Cal­ culations and Physics-Based Methods.

Editors and Affiliations

  • IRISA, Rennes Cedex, France

    Kadi Bouatouch

  • CCETT, Cesson-Sévigné, France

    Christian Bouville

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Photorealism in Computer Graphics

  • Editors: Kadi Bouatouch, Christian Bouville

  • Series Title: Focus on Computer Graphics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09287-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-54265-0Published: 10 February 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08112-5Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-09287-3Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computer Graphics, Simulation and Modeling, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design

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