Rendering Techniques

TL;DR: A novel saliency map is presented which exploits the computational performance of modern GPUs and is thus possible to calculate this map in milliseconds, allowing it to be part of a real time rendering system.

TL;DR: This report sets out to summarize and categorize the research in tone‐mapping as of today, distilling the most important trends and characteristics of the tone reproduction pipeline and specifically focuses on tone-mapping of HDR video and the problems this medium entails.

TL;DR: This work developed an image-based rendering approach for displaying multiple avatars that takes advantage of the properties of the urban environment and the way a viewer and the avatars move within it to produce fast rendering, based on positional and directional discretization.

TL;DR: The state of illuminating cultural heritage sites and objects using computer graphics for scientific, preservation and research purposes is reviewed and the most noteworthy and up-to-date examples of reconstructions employing appropriate illumination models in object and image space, and in the visual perception domain are presented.

TL;DR: The foundations of interactive computer graphics are studied in detail in the second part of this monograph on computer graphics theory andUX.

TL;DR: The concept of "solid texture" to the field of CGI is introduced and used to create very convincing representations of clouds, fire, water, stars, marble, wood, rock, soap films and crystal.

TL;DR: In this article, a tree of "rays" extending from the viewer to the first surface encountered and from there to other surfaces and to the light sources is used to calculate the intensity of the light received by the viewer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the directional distribution of radiant flux reflected from roughened surfaces is analyzed on the basis of geometrical optics, and the analysis successfully predicts the off-specular maxima in the reflection distribution which are observed experimentally and which emerge as the incidence angle increases.