Dr. Arno Formella, Departamento de Informática de la Universidad de Vigo

Ray tracing of curved surfaces


Ray tracing of curved surfaces which are based on meshes of triangles. The triangles define through the view-dependent intersection algorithm curved surfaces.
  • set of images (stored as .jpg) as contained in the article published in Computer Graphics Forum:

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  • Small animation [2.1MB] which shows an object modeled with 976 patches including reflexions in a mirror and reflexions of other objects on the curved object. The smooth silhouettes are easy to observe.



  • The same animated object [2.1MB] but modeled with simple triangles. The silhouettes appear as polylines.



  • Small animation [2.3MB] which shows a cylinder modeled with 16 patches including reflexions on the ground plane and shadows due to several light sources. It can be observed that the patches can be joined either smoothly or defining a sharp edge (tap of the cylinder).





© Arno Formella, last update: May 20, 2003

e-mail: formella@uvigo.es