Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

Procedural noise functions are widely used in Computer Graphics, from off-line rendering in
movie production to interactive video games. The ability to add complex and intricate details …

Procedural noise functions are widely used in computer graphics, from off‐line rendering in
movie production to interactive video games. The ability to add complex and intricate details …

We quantify the degree of lopsidedness for a sample of 149 galaxies observed in the near-
infrared from the OSUBGS sample, and try to explain the physical origin of the observed disk …

Evaluating pixel shaders consumes a growing share of the computational budget for real-
time applications. However, the significant temporal coherence in visible surface regions …

This paper presents a per-pixel ray tracing algorithm with dynamic lighting of surfaces in real-
time on the GPU. First, we propose a method for increased precision of the critical ray-height …

We present a framework based on Genetic Programming (GP) for automatically simplifying
procedural shaders. Our approach computes a series of increasingly simplified shaders that …

Due to complex shaders and high-resolution displays (particularly on mobile graphics
platforms), fragment shading often dominates the cost of rendering in games. To improve the …

Rendering a complex surface accurately and without aliasing requires the evaluation of an
integral for each pixel, namely, a weighted average of the outgoing radiance over the pixel …

Given specific scene configurations and target functions, automatic shader simplification
searches for the best simplified shader variant from an optimization space with many …