Modeling and rendering of natural scenes with thousands of plants poses a number of problems. The terrain must be modeled and plants must be distributed throughout it in a realist...
Oliver Deussen, Pat Hanrahan, Bernd Lintermann, Ra...
Stone is widespread in its use as a building material and artistic medium. One of its most remarkable qualities is that it changes appearance as it interacts with the environment....
Julie Dorsey, Alan Edelman, Henrik Wann Jensen, Ju...
In this paper, we present a novel, hardwareaccelerated approach to compute the visibility between surface points and directional light sources. Thus, our method provides a first-o...
Mirko Sattler, Ralf Sarlette, Gabriel Zachmann, Re...
This paper presents a novel basis function, called spherical piecewise constant basis function (SPCBF), for precomputed radiance transfer. SPCBFs have several desirable properties:...
Kun Xu, Yun-Tao Jia, Hongbo Fu, Shi-Min Hu, Chiew-...
While traditional graphics techniques provide for the realistic display of three-dimensional objects, these methods often lack the flexibility to emulate expressive effects found ...
Peter-Pike J. Sloan, William Martin, Amy Gooch, Br...