The interaction of light and matter in the world surrounding us is of striking complexity and
beauty. Since the very beginning of computer graphics, adequate modelling of these …

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

This book provides a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It
discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a …

Assisted by recent advances in programmable graphics hardware, fast rasterization-based
techniques have made significant progress in photorealistic rendering, but still only render a …

Computer graphics systems are capable of generating stunningly realistic images of objects
that have never physically existed. In order for computers to create these accurately detailed …

We compress storage and accelerate performance of precomputed radiance transfer (PRT),
which captures the way an object shadows, scatters, and reflects light. PRT records over …

Translucent objects are characterized by diffuse light scattering beneath the object's surface.
Light enters and leaves an object at possibly distinct surface locations. This paper presents …

Volume raycasting techniques are important for both visual arts and visualization. They
allow an efficient generation of visual effects and the visualization of scientific data obtained …

Many real world surfaces exhibit translucent appearance due to subsurface scattering.
Although various methods exists to measure, edit and render subsurface scattering effects …

Shadow maps are a very efficient means to add shadows to arbitrary scenes. In this paper,
we introduce Translucent Shadow Maps, an extension to shadow maps which allows very …