In this paper we outline the development of a new paradigm in the field of quantum computing: quantum computer graphics. The purpose is to demonstrate how fundamental computer graphics problems can be expressed using the quantum formalism. We show that corresponding quantum computer graphics algorithms can be formulated in order to exploit the immense potential of quantum information processing...

Coherence denotes similarities between items or entities. It describes the extent to which these items or entities are locally constant. An introduction to coherence and a survey of various types of coherence, that are used in computer graphics, are given. Techniques and data structures for exploiting coherence in computer graphics are described. Incremental techniques, bounding volume schemes,...

The only primitive geometric objects that computer graphics hardware typically can draw are points, lines and polygons. Usually there are special mechanisms to draw images, text characters, et cetera, but these are not commonly considered “geometric” since they are not usually transformed by geometric operations like rotation and perspective projection. Obviously it is important that graphics p...

The field of computer graphics abounds with modeling and simulation problems. Among these are the representation of surface shape, the description of surface reflectance, the probabilistic modeling of small-scale variations, and the application of physics for simulating the dynamics of rigid and elastic materials. During its formative years, computer graphics has focused largely on developing a...

One of the perennial goals in computer graphics is realism in realtime. Handling geometrically complex scenes and physically faithful descriptions of their appearance and behavior, clashes with the requirement of multiple frame per second update rates. It is no surprise then that hierarchical modeling and simulation have already enjoyed a long history in computer graphics. Most recently these i...