Surface Rendering

Surface Rendering is where volumetric data is converted into geometric primitives. Since the geometry is known, the technique allows shading, and calculations on the data, such as deformations. As the surfaces of the primitives are the only parts kept, and the data inside them is thrown away, as unneeded, it greatly reduces the complexity of data.

Surface rendering is used greatly in graphical VR platforms due to the swiftness of manipulation and deformation.

In some applications, such as medicare, it is hampered slightly by the necessity to be 100% sure of the data. Noise introduced into the system blurs the boundaries between primitives, and surface rendering throws away important information about 3D structure, preventing accurate recovery.

See Also: Anisotropic Shading

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Anisotropic Shading Surface Rendering

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Volumetric Rendering in Realtime
A brief but thorough multi-part article from Gamasutra, on creating volumetric rendering in real-time, for use in fog, fluid, and other effects, which correctly affect light at any point through them.

Open-Source, Multitouch Surface
At the start of May 2008, Engineers at Eyebeam, an engineering and design firm based in New York, created a scaled-down open-source version of Microsoft Surface, called Cubit.

Real-Time Rendering, Third Edition

A required reading book on real-time scene rendering that has been around for years, this book serves as a holistic, platform-independent guide for creating high frame rate renders that are as realistic as possible for the hardware available ? and teaches you where the bottlenecks are in the process so that you learn how to gauge new hardware from spec and understand how it will directly impact performance.

Deep-Water Animation and Rendering
An extremely long, and exhaustive article, covering just about everything you need to know to produce very realistic bodies of water.

Rendering a VR for Viruses
University of Melbourne researchers have been utilising the full power of a dedicated IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to run a single massive virtual reality system - simulating the common cold virus inside and out. The purpose? To defeat it.

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