Silhouette-opaque transparency rendering

IASTED International Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 153-158

  Sen, Osman ^a   Chemudugunta, Chaitanya ^a   Gopi, M ^a  

^a Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Object space screen door transparency; Silhouette opacity; Transparency rendering

Indexed keywords

OBJECT-SPACE SCREEN-DOOR TRANSPARENCY; SILHOUETTE-OPACITY; TRANSPARENCY RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPACITY; PROBABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VECTORS;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 1542269638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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