Procedural models (i.e. symbolic programs that output visual data) are a historically-popular method for representing graphics content: vegetation, buildings, textures, etc. They offer many advantages: interpretable design parameters, stochastic variations, high-quality outputs, compact representation, and more. But they also have some limitations, such as the difficulty of authoring procedural...

The advent of computer augmented reality (CAR), in which computer generated objects mix with real video images, has resulted in many interesting new application domains. Providing common illumination between the real and synthetic objects can be very beneficial, since the additional visual cues (shadows, interreflections etc.) are critical to seamless real-synthetic world integration. Building ...

Television has been around for many decades now and has become ubiquitous. Analog TV technology, however, which was developed before the 1940’s, has remained essentially the same over the last 50 years. Alternative digital transmission standards have been developed recently and are in use for satellite and cable transmissions. This technology is now being deployed for terrestrial TV as well. Th...

This paper describes a novel rendering technique for the special relativistic visualization of the apparent geometry of fast moving objects. This method is based on the relativistic aberration of light and makes use of texture mapping. Interactive frame rates are possible, since texture mapping is supported by modern graphics hardware. Unlike the well-known relativistic polygon rendering approa...