Radiosity: A Programmer′s Perspective (Wiley Professional Computing) - Softcover

Ashdown, Ian

9780471304883: Radiosity: A Programmer′s Perspective (Wiley Professional Computing)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471304883 ISBN 13: 9780471304883

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1995

A practical book on the principles of radiosity and implementing the variety of its techniques and algorithms. Carefully details how to build a complete, reusable program from start to finish. Includes a four–page color section of images produced with the software.

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From the Back Cover:

The first practical guide to creating stunningly realistic images on your PC using a new and exciting graphics technology called radiosity... Radiosity A Programmer′s Perspective Once the exclusive domain of a handful of academic researchers working with high–powered graphics workstations, now you can use radiosity to create extremely realistic, true–color images using off–the–shelf personal computers. Radiosity offers the ability to accurately render diffuse reflections, color bleeding between surfaces, realistic shadows, and detailed shading within shadows. More than this, it can create photorealistic images that are impossible to achieve using conventional ray tracing techniques. This book offers you a unique opportunity to explore this technology in depth. Radiosity: A Programmer′s Perspective provides step–by–step guidance for the development of a fully functional, radiosity–based rendering program for Microsoft Windows and other graphical environments, including:
∗ A detailed explanation of radiosity theory and its associated algorithms (no knowledge of higher mathematics required!)
∗ Complete, fully documented, and compiler–independent C++ source code for HELIOS, a radiosity renderer for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT
∗ An extensive guide to the computer graphics radiosity literature

Synopsis:

Radiosity is a technique which can render stunningly realistic computer generated images faster and more efficiently than the currently popular Ray Tracing. Images created with radiosity take into account the most subtle details of colour bleeding, shadows, and light reflection. Covering the principles of radiosity and the variety of methods, algorithms and techniques available, this text then explains how to build a full, reusable program from scratch. Windows-based C++ code from the book, plus a full radiosity program which aids users in running their own programs, is available on disk to accompany this title.

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