This book provides a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It
discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a …

Augmented reality technologies allow people to view and interact with virtual objects that
appear alongside physical objects in the real world. For augmented reality applications to be …

Recently, psychologists have turned their attention to the study of cast shadows and
demonstrated that the human perceptual system values information from shadows very …

Volume raycasting techniques are important for both visual arts and visualization. They
allow an efficient generation of visual effects and the visualization of scientific data obtained …

How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the
inner workings of the visual system. In The Visual World of Shadows, Roberto Casati and …

We present an approach to visualizing particle-based simulation data using interactive ray
tracing and describe an algorithmic enhancement that exploits the properties of these data …

Shadow Algorithms Data Miner provides a high-level understanding of the complete set of
shadow concepts and algorithms, addressing their usefulness from a larger graphics system …

We present a novel approach to interactive and concurrent volume visualization of functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). While the patient is in the scanner, data is extracted in …

Volume rendering is the process of visualizing characteristics and properties of three-
dimensional (3D) volume data as a 3D object. The most extensive use of volume rendering …

Recent years have seen increasing research in perceptually-driven reductions in the costs
of realistically rendered imagery. Water is complex and recognizable, and continues to be in …