A Fast Display Method of Sky Colour Using Basis Functions

Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-127

  Dobashi, Yoshinori ^a   Nishita, Tomoyuki ^b   Kaneda, Kazufumi ^a   Yamashita, Hideo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric scattering; Fourier series; Sky colour

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001320641     PISSN: 10498907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1778(199703)8:2<115::AID-VIS165>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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