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A Hierarchical Shadow Volume Algorithm
(The Eurographics Association, 2004)
The shadow volume algorithm is a popular technique for real-time shadow generation using graphics hardware. Its major disadvantage is that it is inherently fillrate-limited, as the performance is inversely proportional to ...
Interactive Rendering of Atmospheric Scattering Effects Using Graphics Hardware
(The Eurographics Association, 2002)
To create realistic images using computer graphics, an important element to consider is atmospheric scattering, that is, the phenomenon by which light is scattered by small particles in the air. This effect is the cause ...
Towards Interactive Bump Mapping with Anisotropic Shift-Variant BRDFs
(The Eurographics Association, 2000)
In this paper a technique is presented that combines interactive hardware accelerated bump mapping with shift-variant anisotropic reflectance models. An evolutionary path is shown how some simpler reflectance models can ...
Tile-Based Texture Mapping on Graphics Hardware
(The Eurographics Association, 2004)
Texture mapping has been a fundamental feature for commodity graphics hardware. However, a key challenge for texture mapping is how to store and manage large textures on graphics processors. In this paper, we present a ...
Hardware-based Simulation and Collision Detection for Large Particle Systems
(The Eurographics Association, 2004)
Particle systems have long been recognized as an essential building block for detail-rich and lively visual environments. Current implementations can handle up to 10,000 particles in real-time simulations and are mostly ...
GI-Cube: An Architecture for Volumetric Global Illumination and Rendering
(The Eurographics Association, 2000)
The power and utility of volume rendering is increased by global illumination. We present a hardware architecture, GI-Cube, designed to accelerate volume rendering, empower volumetric global illumination, and enable a host ...
SaarCOR - A Hardware Architecture for Ray Tracing
(The Eurographics Association, 2002)
The ray tracing algorithm is well-known for its ability to generate high-quality images and its flexibility to support advanced rendering and lighting effects. Interactive ray tracing has been shown to work well on clusters ...
VIZARD II: A Reconfigurable Interactive Volume Rendering System
(The Eurographics Association, 2002)
This paper presents a reconfigurable, hardware accelerated, volume rendering system for high quality perspective ray casting. The volume rendering accelerator performs ray casting by calculating the path of the ray through ...
The F-Buffer: A Rasterization-Order FIFO Buffer for Multi-Pass Rendering
(The Eurographics Association, 2001)
Multi-pass rendering is a common method of virtualizing graphics hardware to overcome limited resources. Most current multi-pass rendering techniques use the RGBA framebuffer to store intermediate results between each pass. ...
A Quadrilateral Rendering Primitive
(The Eurographics Association, 2004)
The only surface primitives that are supported by common graphics hardware are triangles and more complex shapes have to be triangulated before being sent to the rasterizer. Even quadrilaterals, which are frequently used ...