Interactive rendering of non-constant, refractive media using the ray equations of gradient-index optics

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1375-1382

  Cao, Chen ^a   Ren, Zhong ^a,b   Guo, Baining ^b   Zhou, Kun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; REFRACTION; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; INDEX OF REFRACTION; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; INTERACTIVE RENDERING; INTERSECTION POINTS; PIECE-WISE LINEAR FUNCTIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; RENDERING ALGORITHMS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 77955931651     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01733.x     Document Type: Article

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