Image Shading Taking into Account Relativistic Effects

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 265-300

  Chang, Meng Chou ^a   Lai, Feipei ^a   Chen, Wei Chao ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aberration of light; Algorithms; Doppler effect; I.3.7 Computer Graphics : Three Dimensional Graphics and Realism color, shading, shadowing, and texture; J.2 Computer Applications : Physical Science and Engineering physics; Theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOTION PICTURES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER GAMES; IMAGE SHADING; LIGHT SIGNALS; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION; MOVING OBJECT; PROPAGATION DELAY; SCIENCE FICTION FILMS; SHADOWS; SPECIAL RELATIVITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0030264321     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/234535.234537     Document Type: Article

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