September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
19h 38m
English
Content preview from Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming
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Chapter 17. Shading
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” | ||
| --Pablo Picasso | ||
KEY TOPICS
Real-World Illumination
Light Mapping
The BRDF
Nonphotorealistic Rendering
In Closing
Real-world objects and scenarios are not only defined by their geometry, shape, and structure. We are also very sensitive to the look and texture, and how light interacts with the different materials. Imagine a beach with no sand texture or a wavy sea that did not reflect sunlight properly. A huge part of an object's essence lies within its shading properties, and that is what this chapter is all about.
In computer graphics, shading is a very broad term used to represent all the processes involved in assigning colors to pixels, which in turn represent geometry. Shading ...