“Cone-spheres” by Max
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Title:
- Cone-spheres
Session/Category Title: Rendering
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Abstract:
A cone-sphere consists of two spheres, together with the part of the cylinder or cone tangent to the two spheres and lying between them. Cone-spheres can be rapidly rendered with shading, highlights, texture, or bump maps, and composited to create twisted or branched tubular structures.
References:
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2. Blinn, J. F., “Optimal tubes,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Vol. 6 No. 5 (1989) pp 8-13.
3. Wijk, J. J. van, “Ray tracing objects defined by sweeping a sphere,” Proceedings of the Eurographics ’84 Conference, North Holland, Amsterdam (1984) pp 73-82. See also Van Wijk, “On new types of Solid Models and their Visualization with Ray tracing,” Delft University Press (1986).
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6. Whitted, T., “Anti-aliased line drawing usirtg brush extrusions,” Computer Graphics Vol. 17 No. 3 (1983) (Siggraph ’83 proceedings) pp 151-156.
7. Max, N., “Siggraph ’84 Call for Omnimax Films,” Computer Graphics Vol. 17, No. 1 (1983) pp 73-76.
8. Max, N., “ATOMLLL: ATOMS with shading and highlights,” Computer Graphics Vol. 13 No. 2 (1979) (Siggraph ’79 Proceedings) pp 165-173.
9. Porter, T., and Duff, T., “Compositing digital images,” Computer Graphics Vol. 14 No. 3 (1984) (Siggraph ’84 Proceedings) pp 253- 259.
10. Max, N., and Lemer, D., “A two-and-a-half D motion blur algorithm,” Computer Graphics Vol. 19 No. 3 (1985) (Siggraph ’85 Proceedings) pp 85-93.
