Computer Rendering of Stochastic Models

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1982, Pages 371-384

  Fournier, Alain ^a   Fussell, Don ^b   Carpenter, Loren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Skywalker Sound   (United States)

Author keywords

fractals; stochastic models; terrain models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

FAST-TIME; FRACTIONAL BROWNIAN MOTION; IRREGULAR OBJECTS; NATURAL PHENOMENON; NEW APPROACHES; OBJECT MODELING; SAMPLE PATH; SPACE OVERHEAD; STOCHASTIC-MODELING; TERRAIN MODELING;

EID: 0020143255     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/358523.358553     Document Type: Article

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