“Image Rendering Tricks” Chaired by Turner Whitted

  • ©James (Jim) F. Blinn, Loren C. Carpenter, Richard Chuang, Robert L. Cook, and John Turner Whitted

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Entry Number: 12

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    Image Rendering Tricks

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    TOPICS

    The philosophy of sophisticated hackery/Cook
    Lookup table alchemy/Cook
    Cutting corners where it counts/Cook
    Doing more with less/Whitted
    Ray tracing with PCs/Whitted
    Shading tricks/Whitted
    How to scrounge cycles/Whitted
    Rendering for television/Chuang
    What you can and cannot get away with/Chuang
    Don’t solve problems you can avoid/Chuang
    Avoid rendering whenever possible/Chuang
    The ancient Chinese art of CHI-Ting/Blinn
    Real-time hidden-line fractals on an Atari 400/Carpenter
    Lightening atmospheres/Carpenter
    Painless patches/Carpenter


Contributed By:


    Mary Whitton / Maxine Brown

Location:


    Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota / In the collection of Maxine Brown

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