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Two Methods for Fast Ray-Cast Ambient Occlusion
Ambient occlusion has proven to be a useful tool for producing realistic images, both in offline rendering and interactive applications. In production rendering, ambient occlusion...
Samuli Laine, Tero Karras
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2010
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A Closed-Form Solution to Single Scattering for General Phase Functions and Light Distributions
Due to the intricate nature of the equation governing light transport in participating media, accurately and efficiently simulating radiative energy transfer remains very challeng...
Vincent Pegoraro, Mathias Schott, Steven G. Parker
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2010
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Isosurface Similarity Maps
In this paper, we introduce the concept of isosurface similarity maps for the visualization of volume data. Isosurface similarity maps present structural information of a volume d...
Stefan Bruckner, Torsten Möller
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2010
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Interactive, Multiresolution Image-Space Rendering for Dynamic Area Lighting
Area lights add tremendous realism, but rendering them interactively proves challenging. Integrating visibility is costly, even with current shadowing techniques, and existing met...
Greg Nichols, Rajeev Penmatsa, Chris Wyman
CGF
2010
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ProbExplorer: Uncertainty-guided Exploration and Editing of Probabilistic Medical Image Segmentation
In this paper, we develop an interactive analysis and visualization tool for probabilistic segmentation results in medical imaging. We provide a systematic approach to analyze, in...
Ahmed Saad, Torsten Möller, Ghassan Hamarneh
CGF
2010
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Invisible Seams
Surface materials are commonly described by attributes stored in textures (for instance, color, normal, or displacement). Interpolation during texture lookup provides a continuous...
Nicolas Ray, Vincent Nivoliers, Sylvain Lefebvre, ...
CGF
2010
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Feature based terrain generation using diffusion equation
This paper presents a diffusion method for generating terrains from a set of parameterized curves that characterize the landform features such as ridge lines, riverbeds or cliffs....
Houssam Hnaidi, Eric Guérin, Samir Akkouche...
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2010
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Adaptive Volumetric Shadow Maps
Marco Salvi, Kiril Vidimce, Andrew Lauritzen, Aaro...
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2010
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An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Bridge Management
Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Shen-En Chen, William Rib...
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2010
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Accelerated Visualization of Dynamic Molecular Surfaces
Molecular surfaces play an important role in studying the interactions between molecules. Visualizing the dynamic behavior of molecules is particularly interesting to gain insight...
Norbert Lindow, Daniel Baum, Steffen Prohaska, Han...