EG UK Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics: Recent submissions

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    • Perception-based Lighting Design 

      Ha, Hai Nam; Olivier, Patrick (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      Perception-based lighting design approaches model image quality using a cognitively grounded objective function which is in turn optimised through manipulation of the lighting parameters of a scene. We present, and ...

    • Polynomial Approximation of Blinn-Phong Model 

      Öztürk, Aydin; Bilgili, Ahmet; Kurt, Murat (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      The Phong model has been one of the oldest and the most popular reflection models in Computer Graphics. It can be used to model specular highlights of various materials. In this paper, we consider a polynomial model and ...

    • GraSSML: Smart Schematic Diagrams, XML and Accessibility 

      Fredj, Z. Ben; Duce, D. A. (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      This paper describes work in progress at Oxford Brookes University. The project called Graphical Structure Semantic Markup Languages (GraSSML) aims at defining higher-level diagram description languages for the World Wide ...

    • Smarticles for Sampling and Rendering Implicit Models 

      Jepp, Pauline; Wyvill, Brian; Sousa, Mario Costa (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      Particle systems are a useful way of speeding up the rendering of implicit models and creating effective visualizations of the surface. Surface features, however, can be difficult to see with traditional styles of rendering ...

    • HyperStreamball Visualization for Symmetric Second Order Tensor Fields 

      Liu, J.; Turner, M.; Hewitt, W. T.; Perrin, J. S. (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      This paper proposes a new 3D tensor glyph called a hyperstreamball that extends streamball visualization used within fluid flow fields to applications within second order tensor fields. The hyperstreamball is a hybrid of ...

    • Computing Static Electricity on Human Hair 

      Sobottka, Gerrit; Weber, Andreas (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      We present a framework to study electrical charge phenomena on human hair. We propose a fiber based hair model which bases on the special theory of Cosserat Rods to overcome the well known difficulties one has to deal with ...

    • Physically Based Simulation and Visualization of Fire in Real-Time using the GPU 

      Rødal, Samuel; Storli, Geir; Gundersen, Odd Erik (The Eurographics Association, 2006)
      In this paper we present a physically based framework for real-time simulation and visualization of fire using the GPU. The physics of fire is modeled through a combination of a fluid solver and a combustion process causing ...

    • Ubiquitous Virtual Reality: Accessing Shared Virtual Environments through Videoconferencing Technology 

      Pfeiffer, Thies; Weber, Matthias; Jung, Bernhard (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      This paper presents an alternative to existing methods for remotely accessing Virtual Reality (VR) systems. Common solutions are based on specialised software and/or hardware capable of rendering 3D content, which not only ...

    • VRECKO: Virtual Reality Framework 

      Flasar, Jan; Pokluda, Ludek; O lej ek, Radek; Kolcárek, Pavel; Sochor, Jirí (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      In this paper, we present a framework for experimenting with virtual environments. The architecture of the system VRECKO is designed for the rapid prototyping of techniques for human-computer interaction. The architecture ...

    • Freehand 3D Curve Recognition and Oversketching 

      Han, Li; Amicis, Raffaele De; Conti, Giuseppe (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      In the CAD/CAS field, the increasing domination of spline-based graphic objects has driven a great attention to methods focusing on the management of free-form curves. Based on the quick brainstorm illustration and stepwise ...

    • Click and Brush: A Novel Way of Finding Correlations and Relationships in Visualizations 

      Wright, Michael A. E.; Roberts, Jonathan C. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      Brushing is a commonly used interaction technique that allows users to select items or an area of the visualization as the user moves the mouse. Brushing is often used with multiple views, where any co-related information ...

    • Real-time Simulation of Crowds Using Voronoi Diagrams 

      Champagne, J.; Tang, W. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      In this paper, we present a novel approach for real-time simulation of crowds. Our method is to compute generalised 2D Voronoi diagrams on environment maps for the locations of agents in the crowds. The Voronoi diagrams ...

    • skML a Markup Language for Distributed Collaborative Visualization 

      Duce, D. A.; Sagar, M. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      This paper describes a reference model and a markup language for representing processing and dataflow in distributed collaborative visualization applications. The language, skML, enables processing to be represented at ...

    • Augmented Reality Scenarios for Guitar Learning 

      Liarokapis, F. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      In this paper, an experimental self-teaching system capable of superimposing audio-visual information to support the process of learning to play the guitar is proposed. Different learning scenarios have been carefully ...

    • The Data Surface Interaction Paradigm 

      Lindell, Rikard; Larsson, Thomas (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      This paper presents, in contrasts to the desktop metaphor, a content centric data surface interaction paradigm for graphical user interfaces applied to music creativity improvisation. Issues taken into account were navigation ...

    • Simulation and Visualization of a large scale Real Time Multi-Robot system 

      Al-Hudhud, G.; Ayesh, A.; Istance, H. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      This paper describes the software implementation and the visualization aspects of an interaction-communication protocol within a large scalable multi-robot system. It investigates the current communication protocols within ...

    • Visualization of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for Astrophysics 

      Walker, Rick; Kenny, Peter; Miao, Jingqi (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      Scientific visualization still presents a number of challenges. Effective visualization straddles several problem domains - the data structures needed to support visualization of large data sets, rendering techniques for ...

    • Arachnid Simulation: Scaling Arbitrary Surfaces 

      Cenydd, L. ap; Teahan, W. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      There has been little research done into the realistic simulation of creatures with the ability to crawl across arbitrary surfaces, clamber up walls and walk across ceilings. Realistic simulation of such feats would be of ...

    • Fast Simulation of Facial Tissue Deformations Using Mass-Spring Chain Algorithm 

      Duysak, A.; Zhang, J. J. (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      We propose a method to develop a unique head model to be used in craniofacial surgery simulations. This method considers the shape of the head and skull structure and provides a polygonal model, which includes different ...

    • Cost Prediction Maps for Global Illumination 

      Gillibrand, Richard; Debattista, Kurt; Chalmers, Alan (The Eurographics Association, 2005)
      There is a growing demand from the media industry, including computer games, virtual reality and simulation, for increasing realism in real-time for their computer generated images. Despite considerable advances in processing ...