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Advanced Image Synthesis — Surfaces

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Advances in Computer Graphics I

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To make realistic, or otherwise interesting, images of objects, it is necessary to find the position and orientation of the surfaces of those objects. To do this, the surfaces must be defined in a way convenient for algorithms which calculate shading from surface orientation, and priority (for determining the visible surfaces) from surface position. We will look first at structures in which to store surface description data, then at geometrical calculations for clipping and intersecting surfaces, then at methods for producing shape descriptions, and finally at algorithms for computing surface priority.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG (SEL), Lorenzstraße 10, D-7000, Stuttgart 40, Germany

    Günter Enderle

  2. CRAY Research France, 7, rue de Tilsitt, F-75017, Paris, France

    Michel Grave

  3. METIS A/S, P.O. Box 149, N-3191, Horten, Norway

    Frank Lillehagen (President) (President)

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© 1986 EUROGRAPHICS The European Association for Computer Graphics

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Crow, F.C. (1986). Advanced Image Synthesis — Surfaces. In: Enderle, G., Grave, M., Lillehagen, F. (eds) Advances in Computer Graphics I. EurographicSeminars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46514-7_20

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