TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Several techniques have been developed to approximate Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDF) with acceptable quality and performance for realtime applications. Th...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper we describe a system for animating flames. Stochastic models of flickering and buoyant diffusion provide realistic local appearance while physics-based wind fields a...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Rendering performance of consumer graphics hardware benefits from pre-processing geometric data into a form targeted to the underlying API and hardware. The various elements of ge...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper we present a novel method for creating realistic, controllable motion. Given a corpus of motion capture data, we automatically construct a directed graph called a mo...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper introduces a new kind of mosaic, called Jigsaw Image Mosaic (JIM), where image tiles of arbitrary shape are used to compose the final picture. The generation of a Jigsa...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We present a system that lets a designer directly annotate a 3D model with strokes, imparting a personal aesthetic to the non-photorealistic rendering of the object. The artist ch...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper describes a new method for contouring a signed grid whose edges are tagged by Hermite data (i.e; exact intersection points and normals). This method avoids the need to ...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
This paper introduces an efficient two-pass rendering technique for translucent materials. We decouple the computation of irradiance at the surface from the evaluation of scatteri...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
In this paper we describe how to simulate geometrically complex, interactive, physically-based, volumetric, dynamic deformation models with negligible main CPU costs. This is achi...
TOG
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We describe Chromium, a system for manipulating streams of graphics API commands on clusters of workstations. Chromium's stream filters can be arranged to create sort-first a...