Reflection in computer graphics is used to render reflective objects like mirrors and shiny surfaces. Accurate reflections are commonly computed using...

Caustic Graphics was a computer graphics and fabless semiconductor company that developed technologies to bring real-time ray-traced computer graphics to the...

a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics, by article name. 2D computer graphics 2D geometric model 3D computer graphics 3D modeling...

In 3D computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for modeling light transport for use in a wide variety of rendering algorithms for generating digital...

In computer graphics, reflection mapping or environment mapping is an efficient image-based lighting technique for approximating the appearance of a reflective...

F. (20 July 1977). "Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 11 (2): 192–198. doi:10.1145/965141...

3D rendering is the 3D computer graphics process of converting 3D models into 2D images on a computer. 3D renders may include photorealistic effects or...

of points on a surface designed by the computer graphics researcher Bui Tuong Phong. In 3D computer graphics, it is sometimes referred to as "Phong shading"...

3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of...

Computer graphics lighting encompasses the range of techniques used to simulate light within computer graphics. These methods vary in computational complexity...

2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital...

In 3D computer graphics, Phong shading, Phong interpolation, or normal-vector interpolation shading is an interpolation technique for surface shading...

study of three-dimensional computer graphics, it also encompasses two-dimensional graphics and image processing. Computer graphics studies manipulation of...

theory Reflection symmetry, the property of being unchanged by a reflection Reflection (computer graphics), simulation of reflective surfaces Reflection mapping...

Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film...

In 3D computer graphics, radiosity is an application of the finite element method to solving the rendering equation for scenes with surfaces that reflect...

(1977). "Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures". Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques...

In computer graphics, graphics software refers to a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate images or models visually on...

employed this graphics technique for effects such as reflection and bump-mapping and usually for terrain rendering. Outcast's graphics engine was mainly...

perfect Lambertian reflectance. In computer graphics, Lambertian reflection is often used as a model for diffuse reflection. This technique causes all closed...

In computer graphics, a fragment is the data necessary to generate a single pixel's worth of a drawing primitive in the frame buffer. These data may include...

producing a three-dimensional (3D) effect. Despite the name, isometric computer graphics are not necessarily truly isometric—i.e., the x, y, and z axes are...

Blinn–Phong reflection model, also called the modified Phong reflection model, is a modification developed by Jim Blinn to the Phong reflection model in...

Physically based rendering (PBR) is a computer graphics approach that seeks to render images in a way that models the lights and surfaces with optics...

In computer graphics, back-face culling determines whether a polygon that is part of a solid needs to be drawn. Polygons that face away from the viewer...

standards. They typically differ from mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards, a high core-count CPU with higher raw performance...

Specular reflection, or regular reflection, is the mirror-like reflection of waves, such as light, from a surface. The law of reflection states that a...

a glossary of terms relating to computer graphics. For more general computer hardware terms, see glossary of computer hardware terms. Contents 0–9 A B...

(GI), or indirect illumination, is a group of algorithms used in 3D computer graphics that are meant to add more realistic lighting to 3D scenes. Such algorithms...

Wrinkled Surfaces, Computer Graphics, Vol. 12 (3), pp. 286–292 SIGGRAPH-ACM (August 1978) Blinn, James F.: Texture and Reflection In Computer Generated Images...