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Implementing RenderMan - Practice, Problems and Enhancements
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)The RenderMan interface has been proposed as a general interface to rendering systems, yet only a few implementations of the interface exist. In this paper we describe the implementation of the RenderMan interface on a ... -
Improved Visualisation of Marine Data: Algae and Acid Rain
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An Inexpensive BRDF Model for Physically-based Rendering
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)A new BRDF model is presented which can be viewed as an kind of intermediary model between empirism and theory. Main results of physics are observed (energy conservation, reciprocity rule, microfacet theory) and numerous ... -
An Integrated Line Tracking and Vectorization Algorithm
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)A method is presented to compute a vector representation of an arbitrary line in a bi-level raster image The line may have varying line width and irregular borders. Furthermore, at line crossings and branches the user is ... -
Magicsphere: an insight tool for 3D data visualization
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)How to render very complex datasets, and yet maintain interactive response times, is a hot topic in computer graphics. The MagicSphere idea originated as a solution to this problem, but its potential goes much further than ... -
A Median Cut Algorithm for Efficient Sampling of Radiosity Functions
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)This paper presents an efficient method for sampling the illumination functions in higher order radiosity algorithms. In such algorithms, the illumination function is not assumed to be constant across each patch, but it ... -
The Mesh Propagation Algorithm for Isosurface Construction
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)A new algorithm, Mesh Propagation, is presented for the generation of isosurfaces from three-dimensional discrete data sets. While producing the same surface mesh as that generated by a corrected Marching Cubes algorithm, ... -
A Method for Displaying Metaballs by using Bezier Clipping
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)For rendering curved surfaces, one of the most popular techniques is metaballs, an implicit model based on isosurfaces of potential fields. This technique is suitable for deformable objects and CSG model.For rendering ... -
A New Approach to the Construction of Surfaces from Contour Data
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)This paper presents a new approach to the construction of a surface from a stack of contour slices. Unlike most existing methods, this new approach handles ambiguous conditions consistently without employing an algorithm ... -
A Paradigm for the Robust Design of Algorithms for Geometric Modeling
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)Geometric modelers are becoming faster and more powerful, but they still suffer from reliability problems because of floating point errors. Previous work in the field of robust geometric modeling tends to be problem specific ... -
Parallel ray tracing based upon a multilevel topological knowledge acquisition of the scene
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)Including the standard parallelization by grouping primary rays, this paper presents a new parallel ray-timing method based upon a topological knowledge acquisition of the scene. This topological knowledge focuses on ... -
PREMO - An Initial Approach to a Formal Definition
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)Many descriptions of multimedia programming systems are starting to appear in the literature, but little work has yet been done on how to formally specify and reason about such systems. This paper is a contribution on the ... -
Raycasting of Nonregularly Structured Volume Data
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)Raycasting is an efficient, but computation-intensive technique for the direct rendering of volumetric data. Nonregularly structured volume data is produced in a variety of applications, such as numerical simulation, ... -
Real Time Fitting of Hand-Sketched Pressure Brushstrokes
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)A method is described for fitting the outline of hand-sketched pressure brushstrokes with Bezier curves. It combines the brush-trajectory model, in which a stroke is generated by dragging a brush along a given trajectory, ... -
Reducing The Latency In Head-Mounted Displays By A Novel Prediction Method Using Grey System Theory
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)In this paper we propose a novel prediction method for the head motion using Grey System theory, where a 6D tracker is attached to an HMD on a user s head in virtual reality applications. Our prediction method using Grey ... -
A Robust and Consistent Algorithm for Intersecting Convex Polyhedra
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)This paper presents a numerically robust and topologically consistent algorithm for intersecting convex polyhedra. This algorithm is new in the sense that the consistency issue is completely separated from the numerical ... -
Selective Visualization of Vector Fields
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)In this paper, we present an approach to selective vector field visualization. This selective visualization approach consists of three stages: selectdon creation, selection processing and selective visualization mapping. ... -
A Semantics-based Approach for the Design and Implementation of Interaction Objects
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)Although tools for developing graphical user interfaces are becoming increasingly popular, they do not usually highlight precisely which key elements developers should take into account. This still entails considerable ... -
Sketching 3D models with 2D interaction devices
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)The creation of a 3D shape using CAD tools, namely solid modelers, is difficult and time-consuming. Therefore, these systems are kept away from the conceptual phases of design, perhaps the most important in any product ... -
Skylight for Interior Lighting Design
(Blackwell Science Ltd and the Eurographics Association, 1994)It is inevitable for indoor lighting design to render a room lit by natural light, especially for an atelier or an indoor pool where there are many windows. This paper proposes a method for calculating the illuminance due ...