Das Buch stellt die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse dar über die computergrafische Erzeugung fotorealistischer Bilder durch Simulation optisch-physikalischer Phänomene. Behandelt werden insbesondere Beleuchtungsmodelle (illumination models), Strahlungsverfahren (radiosity) und Strahlverfolgungsverfahren (ray tracing).

This book is concerned with photosimulation and realism in computer graphics. Issues in radiosity are discussed and recent developments in realistic image generation are presented. The papers in the book were presented at a Eurographics workshop.

Inhalt
Invited Paper.- Trends in Radiosity for Image Synthesis.- 1. Efficient Ray Tracing Methods.- Incremental Ray Tracing.- Parametric Surfaces and Ray Tracing.- 2. Theory of Global Illumination Models.- A Theoretical Analysis of Global Illumination Models.- Physically Based Lighting Calculations for Computer Graphics: A Modern Perspective.- Efficient Radiosity Methods for Non-Separable Reflectance Models.- 3. Photometric Algorithms.- A Progressive Ray-Tracing-based Radiosity with General Reflectance Functions.- A Two-Pass Radiosity Method for Bézier Patches.- 4. Form Factor Calculation.- The Hemisphere Radiosity Method: A Tale of Two Algorithms.- Exploiting Coherence for Clipping and View Transformations in Radiosity Algorithms.- A Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm for Unoccluded Environments.- Fast Radiosity by Parallelization.- 5. Physics Based Methods.- Newton's Colors: Simulating Interference Phenomena in Realistic Image Synthesis.- Light Sources in a Ray Tracing Environment.- Methods for Efficient Sampling of Arbitrarily Distributed Volume Densities.