Publisher's Synopsis
SIGGRAPH 2000 is the world's pre-eminent forum for major advances in the fundamental science of computer graphics and interactive techniques. This book brings together exemplary papers chosen by a jury of the world's leading experts for presentation at SIGGRAPH 2000. KEY TOPICS:These papers cover an extraordinary range of research in the field, from simplification and compression to model acquisition; animation to virtual environments; perception and lighting to new techniques for rendering nature. MARKET:For every computer graphics professional interested in the field's state-of-the-art.