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    Reflection in computer graphics is used to render reflective objects like mirrors and shiny surfaces. Accurate reflections are commonly computed using...
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  • Caustic Graphics was a computer graphics and fabless semiconductor company that developed technologies to bring real-time ray-traced computer graphics to the...
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    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...
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    In computer graphics, reflection mapping or environment mapping is an efficient image-based lighting technique for approximating the appearance of a reflective...
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  • a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics, by article name. 2D computer graphics 2D geometric model 3D computer graphics 3D modeling...
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    3D computer graphics, sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics, are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of...
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    F. (20 July 1977). "Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures". ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 11 (2): 192–198. doi:10.1145/965141...
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  • 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"...
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  • Computer graphics lighting encompasses the range of techniques used to simulate light within computer graphics. These methods vary in computational complexity...
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    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...
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    study of three-dimensional computer graphics, it also encompasses two-dimensional graphics and image processing. Computer graphics studies manipulation of...
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    2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital...
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    In 3D computer graphics, Phong shading, Phong interpolation, or normal-vector interpolation shading is an interpolation technique for surface shading...
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  • theory Reflection symmetry, the property of being unchanged by a reflection Reflection (computer graphics), simulation of reflective surfaces Reflection mapping...
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    In 3D computer graphics, radiosity is an application of the finite element method to solving the rendering equation for scenes with surfaces that reflect...
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    Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film...
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    (1977). "Models of light reflection for computer synthesized pictures". Proceedings of the 4th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques...
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  • In computer graphics, graphics software refers to a program or collection of programs that enable a person to manipulate images or models visually on...
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    Voxel (redirect from Voxel graphics)
    employed this graphics technique for effects such as reflection and bump-mapping and usually for terrain rendering. Outcast's graphics engine was mainly...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    perfect Lambertian reflectance. In computer graphics, Lambertian reflection is often used as a model for diffuse reflection. This technique causes all closed...
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  • Blinn–Phong reflection model, also called the modified Phong reflection model, is a modification developed by Jim Blinn to the Phong reflection model in...
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  • 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...
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    Back-face culling (category Computer graphics algorithms)
    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...
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    standards. They typically differ from mainstream personal computers by using high-performance graphics cards, a high core-count CPU with higher raw performance...
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    (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...
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    Physically based rendering (category Computer graphics)
    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...
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    In computer graphics and 3D rendering, color bleeding is the phenomenon in which objects or surfaces are colored by reflection of colored light from nearby...
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    visualization application is the field of computer graphics. The invention of computer graphics (and 3D computer graphics) may be the most important development...
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