Writing mental ray® Shaders A Perceptual Introduction /

• Main Author: Kopra, Andy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2008.
• Series: mental ray® Handbooks, 3
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer graphics.; Image processing.; Application software.; Computer-aided engineering.; Multimedia systems.; Computer Science.; Computer Graphics.; Computer Applications.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design.; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.; Media Design.

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 be...

Table of Contents:

• Structure
• The structure of the scene
• The structure of a shader
• Shaders in the scene
• Color
• A single color
• Color from orientation
• Color from position
• The transparency of a surface
• Color from functions
• The color of edges
• Light
• Lights
• Light on a surface
• Shadows
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Light from other surfaces
• Shape
• Modifying surface geometry
• Modifying surface orientation
• Creating geometric objects
• Modeling hair
• Space
• The environment of the scene
• A visible atmosphere
• Volumetric effects
• Image
• Changing the lens
• Rendering image components
• Modifying the final image.