Digital Representations of the Real World

Preface

Marcus Magnor, Oliver Grau, Olga

Sorkine-Hornung, and Christian Theobalt

Reality: The final frontier. Since the early beginnings of computer graphics,

creating authentic models of real-world objects and achieving visual realism

have been major goals in graphics research. Over the years, ingenious ways

have been devised to represent real objects digitally, to efficiently simulate

and emulate the laws of optics and physics, and to re-create perceptually

authentic appearance. Ever-increasing CPU and GPU performance paved

the way, up to the point where the memory and computational power

available today afford genuine visual realism.

With visual realism within reach of modern hard- and software, intrigu-

ing new computer graphics applications have become ...