Contemporary graphics architectures are based on a hardware-supported geometric pipeline, a rasterizer, a z-buffer and two frame buffers. Additional pixel memory isused for alpha blending and for storing logical information. ...

We propose an unconventional solution to high-performance ray tracing that combines a ray ordering scheme that minimizes access to the scene data with a large on-chip buffer acting as near-compute storage that is spread ...

We introduce a new numerical approach for the solution of grid-based discretizations of nonlinear elastic models. Our method targets the linearized system of equations within each iteration of the Newton method, and combines ...

We describe 'magnetic curves', a particle-tracing method that creates curves with constantly changing curvature. It is well known that charged particles in a constant magnetic field trace out circular or helical trajectories. ...

The design of free form surfaces is usually based on NURBS and it works well to quickly get shapes that a designer intends to create. Such surfaces then have desired properties like given border lines and C1 or C2 continuity ...

Pretend play is a storytelling technique, naturally used from very young ages, which relies on object substitution to represent the characters of the imagined story. We propose "Make-believe", a system for making movies ...

Modeling the material appearance of physical materials requires access to the materials. Sets of identical physical material models were prepared for distribution at the workshop on material appearance modeling 2014 ...

In this paper we describe strategies for recognizing and using hand drawn matrices in a pen math system. This includes a new technique to recognize common short-forms of writing matrices using ellipsis (. . . ). Ellipsis ...