fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) (03/02/91)
Does anyone know of any references to visualization of
under water scenes? I would suspect a ray tracer with
light sources that attenuate rapidly, and some kind of
random spec generator for junk floating around in the water.
I would like to produce a movie of this, like what vort
can do. I will look at modifying vort to simulate light
underwater. I would like to know, again, if there has
been any research in this area, I could use to model it.
If there is interest from others, I'll summarize
and post it.
Thanks.
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Voice: (301) 231-1481 Silver Spring, MD 20906jeffreyt@newton.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Thingvold -Visualization) (03/04/91)
In article <1991Mar1.180913.1075@vitro.com>, fsb@vitro.com (Steve Brailsford) writes: |> |> Does anyone know of any references to visualization of |> under water scenes? I would suspect a ray tracer with |> light sources that attenuate rapidly, and some kind of |> random spec generator for junk floating around in the water. |> I would like to produce a movie of this, like what vort |> can do. I will look at modifying vort to simulate light |> underwater. I would like to know, again, if there has |> been any research in this area, I could use to model it. |> If there is interest from others, I'll summarize |> and post it. |> Thanks. |> -- |> Steve Brailsford (fsb@vitro.com) _____ |> Usenet: uupsi!vitro!fsb \/itro Corporation |> Compu$erve: 73427,1466 14000 Georgia Ave. |> Voice: (301) 231-1481 Silver Spring, MD 20906 Check out the 1990 SIGGRAPH proceedings, there were some papers pertaining to the modeling of water flow and of backward beam tracing to get neat water/light interactions. Perhaps it will give you a decent starting point. This question has nothing to do with visualization. I don't mean to flame, but there are far too many people who think computer graphics == visualization. There is a substantial difference. Visualization is about the process of communicating with an audience in a visual form. In the context of the term "visualization", the audience can be one or many; the information is usually scientific data of one sort or another. The newsgroup comp.graphics is the more appropriate forum for this question. Jeffrey A. Thingvold National Center for Supercomputing Applications 605 E. Springfield Ave. Champaign, IL 61820 217 244-5662 jeffreyt@ncsa.uiuc.edu