Writing Mental Ray Shaders
Andy Kopra
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Description for Writing Mental Ray Shaders
Paperback. This book details the aesthetics of rendering with mental ray. It describes the varieties of shader programming from the point of view of increasing perceptual complexity: from color to the output of the final image. Series: Mental Ray Handbooks. Num Pages: 635 pages, 171 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: UG; UYT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 277 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1584.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer Verlag GmbH Austria
Number of pages
635
Condition
New
Series
Mental Ray Handbooks
Number of Pages
635
Place of Publication
Vienna, Austria
ISBN
9783211489642
SKU
V9783211489642
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