Ray Tracing Implicit Surfaces
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This is an overview of methods for ray tracing implicit surfaces, including the primary problem of intersecting a ray with an implicit surface, and the secondary problems of determining surface normals, and incorporating CSG operations and deformations.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001