Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques

Dealing with state-of-the-art techniques in rendering and animation, this text provides a unique synthesis of advanced techniques not previously available in one coherent source.

ISBN 0201544121   Pages 508 ISBN13 9780201544121 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Pearson Education Limited   Weight (grammes) 1093 Imprint Addison Wesley   Published in Harlow Format Hardback   Series title ACM Press Publication date 02 Dec 1992   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress T385.W378   Width (mm) 189 DEWEY 006.6   Spine width (mm) 32 DEWEY edition DC20   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Part I Basics 1. Rendering polygonal objects Part II Theoretical Foundations 2. The theory and practice of light/object interaction 3. The theory and practice of parametric representation techniques 4. The theory and practice of anti-aliasing techniques Part III Advanced Rendering Techniques: Approaches, Applications and Algorithms 5. Shadow generation techniques 6. Mapping techniques: texture and environment mapping 7. Procedural texture mapping and modelling 8. Ray tracing I: basic recursive ray tracing 9. Ray tracing II: practical ray tracing 10. Ray tracing III: advanced ray tracing models 11. Radiosity methods 12. Global illumination models 13. Volume rendering techniques 14. Advanced rendering interfaces: shading languages and RenderMan Part IV Advanced Animation 15. Overview and low-level motion specification 16. Animating articulated structures 17. Soft object animation 18. Procedural animation Reference Index

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