Kurzbeschreibung
Procedural rendering, modeling, shading and texturing are of growing importance in computer graphics and animation, and, to date, there is no other comprehensive book covering these topics. The book will contain a toolbox of procedures upon which programmers can build a library of procedural textures and objects. It will also include extensive explanations of how these functions work, and how to design new functions. The revision includes updates to the core original text and an additional four chapters. These new chapters introduce and present to the graphics community the state of the art concerning the procedural approach. New chapters include: Cellular Texture Generation, Volumetric Cloud Modeling with Implicit Functions, Interacting with Virtual Actors Rendering with Adaptive Level of Detail.
Synopsis
Procedural rendering, modeling, shading and texturing are of growing importance in computer graphics and animation, and, to date, there is no other comprehensive book covering these topics. This book contains a toolbox of procedures upon which programmers can build a library of procedural textures and objects. It also includes extensive explanations of how these functions work, and how to design new functions. The revision includes updates to the core original text and an additional six chapters. These new chapters introduce and present to the graphics community the state of the art concerning the procedural approach. New chapters include: Cellular Texture Generation, volumetric Cloud Modeling with Implicit Functions, Interacting with Virtual Actors Rendering with Adaptive Level of Detail.
Über den Autor
BIOGRAPHIES Dr. David S. Ebert is an assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He received his PhD. in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University, and is a frequent course organizer at SIGGRAPH.
F. Kenton Musgrave is an assistant professor in the computer science department at George Washington University. He received his PhD. in computer science from Yale.
Darwyn Peachey has worked on animation and rendering software at Pixar since 1988. He received BS and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
Ken Perlin is an associate professor of computer science and the director of the Media Research Laboratory at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He received his PhD. in computer science at the Courant Institute.
Steve Worley is an active researcher in graphics texturing, with experience in practical implementation of textures for use by other 3-D artists. He is the author of the popular Essence library of algorithmic textures.
