The book contains the proceedings of the 8th Eurographics Rendering Workshop, which took place from 16th to 18th June, 1997, in Saint Etienne, France. After a series of seven successful events the workshop is now well established as the major international forum in the field of rendering and illumination techniques. It brought together the experts of this field. Their recent research results are compiled in this proceedings together with many color images that demonstrate new ideas and techniques. This year we received a total of 63 submissions of which 28 were selected for the workshop after a period of careful reviewing and evaluation by the 27 mem­ bers of the international program committee. The quality of the submissions was again very high and, unfortunately, many interesting papers had to be rejected. In addition to regular papers the program also contains two invited lectures by Shenchang Eric Chen (Live Picture) and Per Christensen (Mental Images). The papers in this proceedings contain new research results in the areas of Finite-Element and Monte-Carlo illumination algorithms, image-based render­ ing, outdoor and natural illumination, error metrics, perception, texture and color handling, data acquisition for rendering, and efficient use of hardware. While some contributions report results from more efficient or elegant algo­ rithms, others pursue new and experimental approaches to find better solutions to the open problems in rendering.

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Polyhedral Geometry and the Two-Plane Parameterization.- Image-based Rendering with Controllable Illumination.- View-based Rendering: Visualizing Real Objects from Scanned Range and Color Data.- Applying Shape from Lighting Variation to Bump Map Capture.- Interactive Common Illumination for Computer Augmented Reality.- An Error Metric for Monte Carlo Ray Tracing.- Selective Culling of Discontinuity Lines.- Reconstructing the Visual Field of Compound Eyes.- Interactive Rendering of Globally Illuminated Glossy Scenes.- Incremental Updates to Scenes Illuminated by Area Light Sources.- Progressive Previewing of Ray-Traced Images Using Image Plane Discontinuity Meshing.- An Adaptive Representation of Spectral Data for Reflectance Computations.- A Geometry Dependent Texture Generation Framework for Simulating Surface Imperfections.- Nailboards: A Rendering Primitive for Image Caching in Dynamic Scenes.- Filtered Local Shading in the Wavelet Domain.- An Empirical Comparison of Progressive and Wavelet Radiosity.- Hierarchical Radiosity on Curved Surfaces.- A Hierarchical Subdivision Algorithm for Stochastic Radiosity Methods.- Bidirectional Radiosity.- Hierarchical Visibility in Terrains.- Hierarchical Lighting Simulation for Outdoor Scenes.- Plane-Parallel Radiance Transport for Global Illumination in Vegetation.- Lighting Reconstruction Using Fast and Adaptive Density Estimation Techniques.- A Neuro-Evolutionary Unbiased Global Illumination Algorithm.- Improved Irradiance Computation by Importance Sampling.- Adaptive Sampling and Bias Estimation in Path Tracing.- Application of Rendering Techniques to Monte-Carlo Physical Simulation of Gas Diffusion.- Global Illumination Techniques for the Simulation of Participating Media.- Invited Talk: Global Illumination for Professional 3D Animation, Visualization, and Special Effects.- Color Section.