Exploring Ray Tracing and Animation: Photorealism, Fractals, and 3d Modeling
Published on 1. May 1996
Book
Mixed media product
500 pages
978-1-886801-13-4 (ISBN)
Description
This manual and CD-ROM provides tips for rendering photorealistic images using ray tracing and animation techniques. Covers everything from basic concepts to advanced animation and virtual reality programming.
This manual and CD-ROM provides tips for rendering photorealistic images using ray tracing and animation techniques. Covers everything from basic concepts to advanced animation and virtual reality programming.
This manual and CD-ROM provides tips for rendering photorealistic images using ray tracing and animation techniques. Covers everything from basic concepts to advanced animation and virtual reality programming.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hingham
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-886801-13-4 (9781886801134)
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Content
1 - Why things appear as they do. 2 - Color concepts and principles. 3 - Color applications. 4 - Concepts of three-dimensional space. 5 - How to use your computer as a window into three dimensions. 6 - An introduction to ray tracing. 7 - Seeing the light. 8 - Building your world. 9 - Building your world with mathematics. 10 - Meet Vivid the ray tracer. 11 - The issue of display. 12 - How some of the scenes that you saw earlier were prepared. 13 - Preparing your own scenes. 14 - Modeling tools on the CD ROM. 15 - Animation. 16 - Tutorial on the C programming language. 17 - The anatomy of Bob Jr. 18 - Ray tracing Quaternion Julia sets. 19 - The ins and outs of high-speed ray-traced. animation generation. Appendix A - Credits for images found throughout the text. B - Directory contents of the cd rom. C - Algorithms for ray-object intersection (analytic geometry). D - Quaternion algebra. E - Internet resources for graphics. F - Miscellaneous other resources for graphics.