New Techniques for Ray Tracing Procedurally Defined Objects

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 161-181

  Kajiya, James T ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; FRACTALS; PRISMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FRACTAL SURFACES; IMAGE SYNTHESIS; PROCEDURAL MODELING; RASTER GRAPHICS; SOLID MODEL; STRIP TREES; SURFACES OF REVOLUTION;

RAY TRACING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0000626608     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/357323.357324     Document Type: Article

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