Some of the best current research on realistic rendering is included in this volume. It emphasizes the current "hot topics" in this field: image based rendering, and efficient local and global-illumination calculations. In the first of these areas, there are several contributions on real-world model acquisition and display, on using image-based techniques for illumination and on efficient ways to parameterize and compress images or light fields, as well as on clever uses of texture and compositing hardware to achieve image warping and 3D surface textures. In global and local illumination, there are contributions on extending the techniques beyond diffuse reflections, to include specular and more general angle dependent reflection functions, on efficiently representing and approximating these reflection functions, on representing light sources and on approximating visibility and shadows. Finally, there are two contributions on how to use knowledge about human perception to concentrate the work of accurate rendering only where it will be noticed, and a survey of computer graphics techniques used in the production of a feature length computer-animated film with full 3D characters.

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Contents Tomoyuki Nishita: Light Scattering Models for the Realistic Rendering of Natural Scenes.- Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz: A New Change of Variables for Efficient BRDF Representation.- David Gargan, Francis Neelamkavil: Approximating Reflectance Functions using Neural Networks.- Robert F. Tobler, László Neumann, Mateu Sbert, Werner Purgathofer: A new Form Factor Analogy and its Application to Stochastic Global Illumination Algorithms.- Sergej Zhukov, Andrej Iones, Grigorij Kronin: An Ambient Light Illumination Model.- A. James Stewart, Tasso Karkanis: Computing the Approximate Visibility Map, with Applications to Form Factors and Discontinuity Meshing.- Leif P. Kobbelt, Katja Daubert, Hans-Peter Seidel: Ray Tracing of Subdivision Surfaces.- Holly Rushmeier, Fausto Bernardini, Joshua Mittleman, Gabriel Taubin: Acquiring Input for Rendering at Appropriate Levels of Detail: Digitizing a Pietá.- Pierre Poulin, Mathieu Ouimet, Marie-Claude Frasson: Interactively Modeling with Photogrammetry.- Paul E. Debevec, Yizhou Yu, and George D. Borshukov: Efficient View-Dependent Image-Based Rendering with Projective Texture-Mapping.- Emilio Camahort, Apostolos Lerios, Donald Fussell: Uniformly Sampled Light Fields.- Hansong Zhang: Forward Shadow Mapping.- Ramesh Raskar, Matt Cutts, Greg Welch, and Wolfgang Stürzlinger: Efficient Image Generation for Multiprojector and Multisurface Displays.- Gernot Schaufler: Per-Object Image Warping with Layered Impostors.- Alexandre Meyer, Fabrice Neyret: Interactive Volumetric Textures.- Jean-Michel Dischler: Efficiently Rendering Macro Geometric Surface Structures with Bi-Directional Texture Functions.- J.P. Grossman, William J. Dally: Point Sample Rendering.- Gavin Miller, Marc Mondesir: Rendering Hyper-Sprites in Real Time.- Cyril Soler, Francois X. Sillion: Automatic Calculation of Soft Shadow Textures for Fast, High-Quality Radiosity.- Marc Stamminger, Philipp Slusallek, Hans-Peter Seidel: Three Point Clustering for RadianceComputations.- Karol Myszkowski: The Visible Differences Predictor: Applications to Global Illumination Problems.- Ann McNamara, Alan Chalmers, Tom Troscianko, Erik Reinhard: Fidelity of Graphics Reconstructions: A Psychophysical Investigation.- László Szirmay-Kalos and Werner Purgathofer: Global Ray-bundle Tracing with Hardware Acceleration.- Philippe Bekaert, László Neumann, Attila Neumann, Mateu Sbert, Yves D. Willems: Hierarchical Monte Carlo Radiosity.- Ingmar Peter, Georg Pietrek: Importance Driven Construction of Photon Maps.- Gavin Miller, Steven Rubin, Dulce Ponceleon: Lazy Decompression of Surface Light Fields for Precomputed Global Illumination.- Wolfgang Heidrich, Jan Kautz, Philipp Slusallek, Hans-Peter Seidel: Canned Lightsources.- Dani Lischinski, Ari Rappoport: Image-Based Rendering for Non-Diffuse Synthetic Scenes.- Anthony A. Apodaca: Photosurrealism.- Appendix: Colour images.