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Writing mental ray® Shaders
Andy Kopra
其他書名
A Perceptual Introduction
出版Springer Science & Business Media, 2009-04-05
主題Computers / Software Development & Engineering / Computer GraphicsComputers / Business & Productivity Software / GeneralComputers / Artificial Intelligence / Computer Vision & Pattern RecognitionComputers / Design, Graphics & Media / CAD-CAMLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralComputers / Design, Graphics & Media / GeneralComputers / Software Development & Engineering / GeneralComputers / GeneralComputers / Desktop Applications / GeneralComputers / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools
ISBN32114896579783211489659
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GbvKPjZHIEQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The word "render" isn't unique to the vocabulary of computer graphics. We can talk about a "watercolor rendering," a "musical rendering" or a "poetic rendering." In each of these, there is a transformation from one domain to another: from the landscape before the painter to color on paper, from musical notation to sound, from the associations in a poet's mind to a book of poetry. Figure 1.1: Czar's Waiting Room, Main Railway Station, Helsinki, Eliel Saarinen, 1910, watercolor. But the type of rendering that may come closest to what we mean when we talk about rendering in computer graphics is in architecture. Geometric blueprints and technical specifications of building materials are transformed in the architectural rendering into a picture of the building 1 Introduction as it will appear when construction is complete. In addition to the designs of the building's geometry and its visual characteristics, the artist chooses a point of view to depict the scene in perspective. This is a transformation of a description of imagined space into a picture of that space. In a watercolor by architect Eliel Saarinen (Figure 1.1), the effect of light on marble is demonstrated in a way that would be lost in even a careful reading of blueprints and descriptions of materials. A mere brushstroke of a particular color in a particular place paradoxically transforms the dull matte appearance of watercolor into the sheen of polished stone.