Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Computer Graphics

The object of this paper is to prove that the use of artificial intelligence techniques in computer graphics can greatly improve the obtained results. Improvements in three areas of computer graphics are presented in the paper: in scene modelling, where declarative modelling techniques can greatly improve the designer’s work ; in scene understanding, where the use of heuristic search and strategy games techniques allows the user to well understand a scene by means of a virtual camera moving around the scene; in Monte Carlo radiosity techniques where the use of heuristic search permits to automatically estimate the complexity of a region of the scene to be rendered and so to refine the processing of complex regions in order to obtain more accurate images.