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Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies
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Virtual Reality: Concepts and Technologies

by Philippe Fuchs, Guillaume Moreau, Pascal Guitton
July 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
16h 6m
English
CRC Press
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The method of radiosity has been improved several times after its introduction in image
synthesis. The hierarchical resolution (Hanrahan et al., 1991) decreases the complex-
ity by solving it at different levels, which gives a multiresolution approach using the
wavelets functions for the projection of radiosity (Gortler et al., 1993b). In fact, when
the surfaces are distant, a rough subdivision is sufficient to obtain good results, whereas
when the surfaces are closer, a finer subdivision becomes necessary. Smits et ...
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