A framework for realistic image synthesis

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 477-494

  Greenberg, Donald P ^a   Torrance, Kenneth E ^a   Shirley, Peter ^b   Arvo, James ^c   Lafortune, Eric ^a   Ferwerda, James A ^a   Walter, Bruce ^a   Trumbore, Ben ^a   Pattanaik, Sumanta ^a   Foo, Sing Choong ^d  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Blue Sky Studios   (United States)

Author keywords

light reflection; perception; realistic image synthesis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; PHYSICAL SIMULATION; REALISTIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS; RENDERING ALGORITHMS; RESEARCH FRAMEWORKS; SYNTHETIC IMAGES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 85023927732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/258734.258914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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