Realistic solar disc rendering

13th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2005, WSCG'2005 - In Co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS, Full Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 79-86

  Linţu, Andrei ^a   Haber, Jörg ^a   Magnor, Marcus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Photo realistic rendering; Ray tracing; Scattering; Solar disc

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE PROFILES; GREEN ASH; LIMB DARKENING; MIE SCATTERING; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING; SOLAR DISC;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 33645768139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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