Efficient rendering of lightning taking into account scattering effects due to clouds and atmospheric particles

Proceedings - Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 390-399

  Dobashi, Yoshinori ^a   Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nishita, Tomoyuki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmospheric scattering; Clouds; Efficient rendering; Graphics hardware; Level of detail; Lightning

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HARDWARE; LIGHTNING; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

ATMOSPHERIC PARTICLES; ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING; EFFICIENT RENDERING; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; LEVEL OF DETAIL; PHOTOREALISTIC IMAGES; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS;

RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 84884600771     PISSN: 15504085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCGA.2001.962896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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