The Science of Rendering Photorealistic CGI

4/20/2016 ISO 1200 Magazine 0 Comments

How do we get a glorified adding machine to generate a photorealistic image? Find out as we explore the processes developed over 40 years of intensive computer science research which now bring amazing Visual Effects to the silver screen which include Rasterization, Ray Casting, Ray Tracing and the Rendering Equation.

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