Virtual beings are playing a remarkable role in today’s public entertainment, while ordinary users are still treated as audiences due to the lack of appropriate expertise, equip...
In recent years many tone mapping operators (TMOs) have been presented in order to display high dynamic range images (HDRI) on typical display devices. TMOs compress the luminance ...
Francesco Banterle, Patrick Ledda, Kurt Debattista...
Shade Trees Morgan McGuire George Stathis Hanspeter Pfister Shriram Krishnamurthi Brown University Harvard Extension School MERL Brown University As GPU-powered special effects be...
Morgan McGuire, George Stathis, Hanspeter Pfister,...
Illustrations play a major role in the education process. Whether used to teach a surgical or radiologic procedure, to illustrate normal or aberrant anatomy, or to explain the fun...
Like many massively-multiplayer role-playing games, Final Fantasy XI is a persistent world with a heroic fantasy setting. This paper discusses fictive player identities, and descr...