Myths of Computer Graphics

Alexander Keller ()
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Alexander Keller: University of Ulm, Abt. Medieninformatik

A chapter in Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2004, 2006, pp 217-243 from Springer

Abstract: Summary Computer graphics textbooks teach that sampling by deterministic patterns or even lattices causes aliasing, which only can be avoided by random, i.e. independent sampling. They recommend random samples with blue noise characteristic, which however are highly correlated due to their maximized minimum mutual distance. On the other hand the rendering software mental ray, which is used to generate the majority of visual effects in movies, entirely is based on parametric integration by quasi-Monte Carlo methods and consequently is strictly deterministic. For its superior quality the software even received a Technical Achievement Award (Oscar) by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2003. Along the milestones of more than ten years of development of quasi-Monte Carlo methods in computer graphics, we point out that the two previous statements are not contradictory.

Keywords: Computer Graphic; Image Synthesis; Radical Inverse; Halton Sequence; Unit Torus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31186-6_14

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