Handbook of Digital Image Synthesis: Scientific Foundations of Rendering Front Cover

Handbook of Digital Image Synthesis: Scientific Foundations of Rendering

  • Length: 880 pages
  • Edition: 1
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  • Publication Date: 2016-12-23
  • ISBN-10: 1498774245
  • ISBN-13: 9781498774246
  • Sales Rank: #3456927 (See Top 100 Books)
Description

The Handbook of Digital Image Synthesis constitutes a comprehensive reference guide in the rapidly-developing field of computer graphics, whose applications span not only the movie and gaming industries, but also digital marketing, industrial and architectural design, virtual-environment simulators, and medical imaging. This resource provides an extensive, yet concise, treatment of the elementary principles and advanced concepts underpinning digital image synthesis, while covering a broad range of scientific topics such as pure and applied mathematics, geometric surfaces and data structures, the physics of light interaction and propagation, analytical and numerical simulation schemes, and optical perception and imaging. With its foundations laid from the ground up, the content includes a compilation of the theoretical formulas relevant for practical implementation in an actual rendering system, along with their step-by-step derivation, which provides field practitioners with a thorough understanding of their underlying assumptions and limitations, as well as with the methodologies necessary to adapt the results to new problems. Throughout, the presentation of the material is substantiated by numerous figures and computer-generated images illustrating the core ideas, several tables synthesizing results and industry standards, and platform-independent pseudo-code highlighting the core algorithms, in addition to a large collection of bibliographic references to the literature and an index of the standard scientific terms defined therein, thereby allowing the reader to rapidly harness fundamental notions and experimental trends.

Table of Contents

PART I: Mathematical Foundations
CHAPTER 2: Elementary Algebra & Calculus
CHAPTER 3: Linear Algebra
CHAPTER 4: Monte Carlo Methods
CHAPTER 5: Signal Theory

PART II: Geometrical Foundations
CHAPTER 6: Analytic Surfaces
CHAPTER 7: Implicit Surfaces
CHAPTER 8: Parametric Curves & Surfaces
CHAPTER 9: Indexing Structures

PART III: Physical Foundations
CHAPTER 10: Visible Light
CHAPTER 11: Participating Media
CHAPTER 12: Surface Reflectance
CHAPTER 13: Light Transport

PART IV: Computational Foundations
CHAPTER 14: Analytic Methods
CHAPTER 15: Deterministic Methods
CHAPTER 16: Stochastic Methods
CHAPTER 17: Statistic Methods

PART V: Perceptual Foundations
CHAPTER 18: Image-Forming Optical Systems
CHAPTER 19: Visual Perception
CHAPTER 20: Color Science
CHAPTER 21: HDR Imaging

PART: Epilogue
CHAPTER 22: Conclusion

PART: Appendices
APPENDIX A: Standard Units
APPENDIX B: Numerical Data

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