Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis

Michael F. Cohen, John R. Wallace0121782700, 9780121782702

The Book “Radiosity and Realistic Image Generation” is dedicated to only one realistic image generation method, the radiosity method. And nothing else. The authors were very much involved in defining the radiosity method and they have developed and published some of the basic techniques and a lot of the advanced algorithms for the radiosity method and it shows. The book covers all aspects of this image generation process in great detail.lt;pgt;This book is very well structured and explains the radiosity method in a very illustrative way. In order to understand the radiosity method, one has to appreciate the mathematical and physical fundaments of this elegant image generation method, and the authors do a great job in carefully defining and introducing all of these fundaments. The radiosity method is quite complex and requires and a lot of acceleration techniques have been introduced during the late 80s and early 90s. This book covers them all. lt;pgt;I dont see any negative aspects about this book. Yes, it is quite mathematical, but there is no other way to cover all details of the radiosity method. This book is the reference.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Copyright……Page 3
About the Cover……Page 4
Contents……Page 21
Foreward……Page 27
Preface……Page 29
Color Plates……Page 5
Chapter 1 Introduction……Page 33
Chapter 2 Rendering Concepts……Page 45
Chapter 3 Descretizing the Radiosity Equation……Page 73
Chapter 4 The Form Factor……Page 97
Chapter 5 Radiosity Matrix Solutions……Page 141
Chapter 6 Domain Subdivision……Page 163
Chapter 7 Hierarchical Methods……Page 199
Chapter 8 Meshing……Page 241
Chapter 9 Rendering……Page 274
Chapter 10 Extensions……Page 320
Chapter 11 Applications and Research……Page 362
Bibliography……Page 380
A-C……Page 404
D-E……Page 405
F-G……Page 406
H-L……Page 407
M……Page 408
N-P……Page 409
Q-S……Page 410
T-W……Page 411
X-Z……Page 412