Texturing and Modeling, Second Edition: A Procedural Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122287304 ISBN 13: 9780122287305

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1998

Synopsis

Procedural rendering, modeling, shading and texturing are of growing importance in computer graphics and animation, and, to date, there is no other comprehensive book covering these topics. This book contains a toolbox of procedures upon which programmers can build a library of procedural textures and objects. It also includes extensive explanations of how these functions work, and how to design new functions. The revision includes updates to the core original text and an additional six chapters. These new chapters introduce and present to the graphics community the state of the art concerning the procedural approach. New chapters include: Cellular Texture Generation, volumetric Cloud Modeling with Implicit Functions, Interacting with Virtual Actors Rendering with Adaptive Level of Detail.

* Written at a usable level by the developers of the techniques, including Academy Technical Achievement Award-winners Ken Perlin and Darwyn Peachey
* Serves as a sourcebook for those writing rendering systems, shadings, and animations
* Provides a toolbox of specific procedures and basic primitive functions for producing realistic images
* Describes procedural character animation techniques, including facial animation
* Discusses the design and implementation of essential procedural primitives such as noise and turbulence
* Procedures are presented in C code segments or in RenderManâ shading language
* CD-ROM contains the code from within the book for easy implementation.
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* Introduces volumetric cloud modeling.
* Shows how to exploit the inherent multi-resolution capability of procedural models.
* Discusses the use of genetic techniques for generating textures.

> * Describes the use of fractals for generating realistic mountains, > landscapes, and planets.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. David S. Ebert is an associate professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He has served on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee and was Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

From the Back Cover

Completely revised and updated with new chapters, this is the classic reference for defining the procedural approach to texturing and modeling. Updated to the current computer graphics marketplace, the second edition contains a toolbox of procedures upon which programmers can build a library of textures and objects.

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AWARD WINNER
Congratulations to Ken Perlin for his 1997 Technical Achievement Award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Board of Governors, given in recognition of the development of "Turbulence," Perlin Noise, a technique discussed in this book which is used to produce natural appearing textures on computer generated surfaces for motion picture visual effects. Dr. Perlin joins Darwyn Peachy (co-developer of RenderManâ, also discussed in the book) in being honored with this prestigious award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122287304
• ISBN 13: 9780122287305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 415
• Editor: Ebert David S.