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A numerical method for rendering spherical reflections

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VIS '90: Proceedings of the 1st conference on Visualization '90

Pages 289 - 297

Published: 23 October 1990 Publication History

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Reflections in curved surfaces add an additional dimension to the visualization of computer generated scenes. Conventionally, they are generated by either texture mapping or ray tracing. However, these methods have serious drawbacks restricting their use in many applications. In this paper, current methods in rendering reflections in curved surfaces are examined. A numerical algorithm to derive spherical reflections is presented as a promising alternative. This algorithm exhibits many attractive properties, e.g., low computation cost, object space coherence, resolution and device independence, etc. Furthermore, this method can be generalized to render reflections in a family of curved surfaces.

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VIS '90: Proceedings of the 1st conference on Visualization '90

October 1990

501 pages

ISBN:0818620838

Conference Chairs:
Bruce Eric Brown
Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA
,
Gary Laguna
Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
,
Editor:
Arie Kaufman
State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
,
Program Chairs:
Larry Rosenblum
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
,
Gregory M. Nielson
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Graphics

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IEEE Computer Society Press

Washington, DC, United States

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Published: 23 October 1990

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October 23 - 26, 1990

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