Rendering biological iridescences with RGB-based renderers

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-129

  Sun, Yinlong ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological iridescence; Interference; RGB; Spectra; Structural color

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFRACTION; LIGHTING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL IRIDESCENCE; INTERFERENCE; RGB; SPECTRA; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

DRAWING (GRAPHICS);

EID: 33646256604     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 07300301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1122501.1122506     Document Type: Article

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