The generation of good-looking large textures for arbitrary surfaces as well as the distribution of many objects within an interactive ecosystem are very important. The restrictions of graphics memory size limit the desired dimensions of information content. In order to create more and more realistic looking environments, computer graphics has to make use of all algorithmic capabilities. Wang t...

Realtime ray tracing produces high quality images at interactive frame rates. While the realtime rendering domain is still dominated by raster graphics, realtime ray tracing recently has become much more powerful. This paper addresses the essence of realtime ray tracing: the various acceleration techniques which yield interactive performance, how coherence between rays can be exploited and effe...

The Optics Project (TOP) is a 3D, interactive computer graphics system that was developed at Mississippi State University to help students learn optics. TOP runs on Silicon Graphics workstations. We describe our initial progress on WebTOP, the Web version of TOP.

We briefly survey the major thrusts of computer graphics activities, examining trends and topics rather than offering a comprehensive survey of all that is happening. The directions of professional activities, hardware, software, and algorithms are outlined. Within hardware we examine workstations, personal graphics systems, high performance systems, and low level VLSI chips; within software, s...

John Vince explains a wide range of mathematical techniques and problem-solving strategies associated with computer games, animation, virtual reality, CAD other areas graphics in this updated expanded fourth edition. The first four chapters revise number sets, algebra, trigonometry coordinate systems, which are employed the following on vectors, transforms, interpolation, 3D curves patches, ana...