Making radiosity usable: automatic preprocessing and meshing techniques for the generation of accurate radiosity solutions

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 51-60

  Baum, Daniel R ^a   Mann, Stephen ^b   Smith, Kevin P ^c   Winget, James M ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mesh generation.; Radiosity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MESH GENERATION; TOPOLOGY;

COMMERCIAL MODELS; MESHING TECHNIQUES; RADIOSITY; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; SOLUTION PROCESS; SOLUTION TECHNIQUES; TOPOLOGICAL CRITERIA;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 33747955846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/122718.122724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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