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    • Flattening the Viewable Sphere 

      German, Daniel M.; Burchill, Lloyd; Duret-Lutz, Alexandre; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien; Pérez-Duarte, Emmanuel; Sommers, Josh (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
      The viewable sphere corresponds to the space that surrounds us. The evolution of photography and panoramic software and hardware has made it possible for anybody to capture the viewable sphere. It is now up to the artist ...
    • An Information-Theoretic Ambient Occlusion 

      González, Francisco; Sbert, Mateu; Feixas, Miquel (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
      Ambient occlusion is a powerful technique that mimics indirect global illumination at a fraction of the cost. In this paper, we introduce a new ambient occlusion technique based on information-theoretic concepts. A viewpoint ...
    • New Methods to Project Panoramas for Practical and Aesthetic Purposes 

      German, Daniel M.; d'Angelo, Pablo; Gross, Michael; Postle, Bruno (The Eurographics Association, 2007)
      Recent advances in digital photomontage have simplified the creation of extreme wide-angle views from a vantage point, including the recreation of the entire sphere (we will refer to these type of images as panoramas). In ...