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RT
2001
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Realistic Reflections and Refractions on Graphics Hardware with Hybrid Rendering and Layered Environment Maps
We introduce hybrid rendering, a scheme that dynamically ray traces the local geometry of reflective and refractive objects, but approximates more distant geometry by hardwaresupp...
Ziyad S. Hakura, John M. Snyder
RT
1998
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Efficient View-Dependent Image-Based Rendering with Projective Texture-Mapping
Abstract. This paper presents how the image-based rendering technique of viewdependent texture-mapping (VDTM) can be efficiently implemented using projective texture mapping, a fea...
Paul E. Debevec, Yizhou Yu, George Borshukov
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CGF
2010
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15 years 22 days ago
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
SSDBM
2006
IEEE
163views Database» more  SSDBM 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
ACache: Using Caching to Improve the Performance of Multiple Sequence Alignments
Multiple sequence alignment represents a class of powerful bioinformatics tools with many uses in computational biology ranging from discovery of characteristic motifs and conserv...
Xun Tu, Kajal T. Claypool, Cindy X. Chen
108
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CORR
2008
Springer
123views Education» more  CORR 2008»
15 years 21 days ago
Provenance Traces
Provenance is information about the origin, derivation, ownership, or history of an object. It has recently been studied extensively in scientific databases and other settings due...
James Cheney, Umut A. Acar, Amal Ahmed