Real-Time Rendering: Computer Graphics with Control Engineering (Automation and Control Engineering) - Hardcover

Book 23 of 58: Automation and Control Engineering

Wong, Gabriyel; Wang, Jianliang

 
9781466583597: Real-Time Rendering: Computer Graphics with Control Engineering (Automation and Control Engineering)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1466583592 ISBN 13: 9781466583597
Publisher: CRC Press, 2013

Synopsis

Consumers today expect extremely realistic imagery generated in real time for interactive applications such as computer games, virtual prototyping, and scientific visualisation. However, the increasing demands for fidelity coupled with rapid advances in hardware architecture pose a challenge: how do you find optimal, sustainable solutions to accommodate both speed of rendering and quality? Real-Time Rendering: Computer Graphics with Control Engineering presents a novel framework for solving the perennial challenge of resource allocation and the trade-off between quality and speed in interactive computer graphics rendering.

Conventional approaches are mainly based on heuristics and algorithms, are largely application specific, and offer fluctuating performance, particularly as applications become more complex. The solution proposed by the authors draws on powerful concepts from control engineering to address these shortcomings. Expanding the horizon of real-time rendering techniques, this book:

  • Explains how control systems work with real-time computer graphics
  • Proposes a data-driven modelling approach that more accurately represents the system behaviour of the rendering process
  • Develops a control system strategy for linear and non-linear models using proportional, integral, derivative (PID) and fuzzy control techniques
  • Uses real-world data from rendering applications in proof-of-concept experiments
  • Compares the proposed solution to existing techniques
  • Provides practical details on implementation, including references to tools and source code

This pioneering work takes a major step forward by applying control theory in the context of a computer graphics system. Promoting cross-disciplinary research, it offers guidance for anyone who wants to develop more advanced solutions for real-time computer graphics rendering.

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Gabriyel Wong, Jianliang Wang

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Publisher
CRC Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1466583592
ISBN 13 
9781466583597
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
223