VMV
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
The visual hull is an efficient shape approximation for the purpose of reconstructing and visualizing dynamic objects. Recently, rapid progress in graphics hardware development h...
WSCG
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Image-space techniques have shown to be very efficient for collision detection in dynamic simulation and animation environments. This paper proposes a new image-space technique for...
WSCG
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Image-based CSG rendering algorithms for standard graphics hardware rely on multipass rendering that includes reading and writing large amounts of pixel data from and to the frame...
WSCG
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Shadow mapping is a commonly used technique for generating hard shadows in real time. However, existing shadow map based algorithms cannot render full soft shadows penumbras onto ...
VIIP
2001
13 years 6 months ago
2001
Graphics cards exercise increasingly more computing power and are highly optimized for high data transfer volumes. In contrast typical workstations perform badly when data exceeds...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
Collision detection is a vital task in almost all forms of computer animation and physical simulation. It is also one of the most computationally expensive, and therefore a freque...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We present a technique for the easy acquisition of realistic materials and mesostructures, without acquiring the actual BRDF. The method uses the observation that under certain ci...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Radiosity is a widely used technique for global illumination. Typically the computation is performed offline and the result is viewed interactively. We present a technique for com...
3DPVT
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Height fields and depth maps which we collectively refer to as z-fields, usually carry a lot of redundant information and are often used in real-time applications. This is the rea...
VISUALIZATION
1996
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1996
IEEE
A general volume rendering technique is described that efficiently produces images of excellent quality from data defined over irregular grids having a wide variety of formats. Re...