Simulating the aurora

Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 43-59

  Baranoski, Gladimir V G ^a   Rokne, Jon G ^b   Shirley, Peter ^c   Trondsen, Trond S ^b   Bostos, Rui ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effects; Natural phenomena; Physically based rendering

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; CURTAIN-LIKE VOLUME; NATURAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICALLY BASED RENDERING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; VISUALIZATION; X RAYS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 21644469562     PISSN: 10498907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/vis.304     Document Type: Article

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