Shadermaps: A Method For Accelerating Procedural Shading
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Procedural shading has proven to be an indispensable tool for providing photorealistic, photosurrealistic, and artistic effects in computer generated animations. However, due to its computational cost, the time to produce a single frame is measured in hours or days. In this paper we introduce shadermaps, a new method for accelerating procedural shading which exploits inter-frame coherence to significantly reduce rendering times of animations. Presented at SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications. This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories of Cambridge, Massachusetts; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. All rights reserved. Copyright © MERL Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, 2001 201 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Shadermaps: A Method For Accelerating Procedural Shading Thouis R. Jones, Ronald N. Perry, Michael Callahan MERL Æ
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تاریخ انتشار 2000