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SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Computer modelling of fallen snow
In this paper, we present a new model of snow accumulation and stability for computergraphics. Our contribution is divided into two major components, each essential for modelling ...
Paul Fearing
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Pomegranate: a fully scalable graphics architecture
Pomegranate is a parallel hardware architecture for polygon rendering that provides scalable input bandwidth, triangle rate, pixel rate, texture memory and display bandwidth while...
Matthew Eldridge, Homan Igehy, Pat Hanrahan
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Conservative visibility preprocessing using extended projections
Visualization of very complex scenes can be significantly accelerated using occlusion culling. In this paper we present a visibility preprocessing method which efficiently compu...
Frédo Durand, George Drettakis, Joëlle...
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A simple, efficient method for realistic animation of clouds
This paper proposes a simple and computationally inexpensive method for animation of clouds. The cloud evolution is simulated using cellular automaton that simplifies the dynamics...
Yoshinori Dobashi, Kazufumi Kaneda, Hideo Yamashit...
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Computer-generated pen-and-ink illustration of trees
We present a method for automatically rendering pen-and-ink illustrations of trees. A given 3-d tree model is illustrated by the tree and a visual representation of the foliage us...
Oliver Deussen, Thomas Strothotte
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Environment matting extensions: towards higher accuracy and real-time capture
Environment matting is a generalization of traditional bluescreen matting. By photographing an object in front of a sequence of structured light backdrops, a set of approximate li...
Yung-Yu Chuang, Douglas E. Zongker, Joel Hindorff,...
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The EMOTE model for effort and shape
Human movements include limb gestures and postural attitude. Although many computer animation researchers have studied these classes of movements, procedurally generated movements...
Diane M. Chi, Monica Costa, Liwei Zhao, Norman I. ...
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Sampling plausible solutions to multi-body constraint problems
Traditional collision intensive multi-body simulations are difficult to control due to extreme sensitivity to initial conditions or model parameters. Furthermore, there may be mu...
Stephen Chenney, David A. Forsyth
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Plenoptic sampling
This paper studies the problem of plenoptic sampling in imagebased rendering (IBR). From a spectral analysis of light field signals and using the sampling theorem, we mathematica...
Jinxiang Chai, Shing-Chow Chan, Heung-Yeung Shum, ...
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Style machines
We approach the problem of stylistic motion synthesis by learning motion patterns from a highly varied set of motion capture sequences. Each sequence may have a distinct choreogra...
Matthew Brand, Aaron Hertzmann