In this paper, we present a physical validation of global illumination algorithms based on measurements from a simple experimental setup. The validation methodology emphasizes tractability and error minimization. To this ...

We present three methods for texturing point models from sample textures. The first method, the point parameterization method, uses a fast distortion-bounded parameterization algorithm to flatten the point model's surface ...

With the increasing complexity of photorealistic scenes, the question of building and placing objects in three-dimensional scenes is becoming ever more difficult. While the question of placement of rigid objects has captured ...

This paper describes a novel approach to the parameterization of triangle meshes representing 2-manifolds with an arbitrary genus. A topology-based decomposition of the shape is computed and used to segment the shape into ...

Representing motions as linear sums of principal components has become a widely accepted animation technique. While powerful, the simplest version of this approach is not particularly well suited to modeling the specific ...

The aim of the rapid world modeling project is to implement a system to visualize the topography of the entire world on consumer-level hardware. This presents a significant problem in terms of both storage requirements and ...

The increased programmability of graphics hardware allows efficient graphical processing unit (GPU) implementations of a wide range of general computations on commodity PCs. An important factor in such implementations is ...