The race for real-time photorealism

Summary, in English

Since the 1960s, product designers, architects, lighting planners, gamers and scientific visualizaiton specialists have craved the ability to work in real-time three-dimensional photorealistic virtual worlds. The authors, one specializing in making computer graphics more convincing and the other focusing on making them faster, present the achievements and challenges in the race for real-time photorealistic 3D.

• Author: Henrik Wann Jensen; Tomas Akenine-Möller
• Department/s: ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication; Department of Computer Science; Parallel Systems
• Publishing year: 2010
• Language: English
• Pages: 132-139
• Publication/Series: American Scientist
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 2
• Links: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2010/2/the-race-for-real-time-photorealism
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society
• Topic: Computer Science
• Status: Published
• Research group: Computer Graphics
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1545-2786