Global illumination provides a visual richness not achievable with the direct illumination models used by most interactive applications. To generate global effects, numerous appro...
This paper presents a new technique for rendering bidirectional texture functions (BTFs) at different levels of detail (LODs). Our method first decomposes each BTF image into mul...
This paper presents a technique for representing and displaying high dynamic-range texture maps (HDRTMs) using current graphics hardware. Dynamic range in real-world environments o...
Jonathan Cohen, Chris Tchou, Tim Hawkins, Paul E. ...
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...
Peloton is a sports simulator that uses the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to create virtual environments for athletic training and competition. In particular, it create...
Gianpaolo U. Carraro, Mauricio Cortes, John T. Edm...