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Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques

EGSR 1998: Rendering Techniques ’98 pp 117–130Cite as

Uniformly Sampled Light Fields

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Image-based or light field rendering has received much recent attention as an alternative to traditional geometric methods for modeling and rendering complex objects. A light field represents the radiance flowing through all the points in a scene in all possible directions. We explore two new techniques for efficiently acquiring, storing, and reconstructing light fields that can produce uniformly high quality images of an object from any point of view exterior to it. Both techniques discretize the light field by sampling the set of lines that intersect a sphere tightly fit around the object.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, USA

    Emilio Camahort & Donald Fussell

  2. Align Technology, Inc., USA

    Apostolos Lerios

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  1. INRIA, Grenoble, France

    George Drettakis

  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA

    Nelson Max

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Camahort, E., Lerios, A., Fussell, D. (1998). Uniformly Sampled Light Fields. In: Drettakis, G., Max, N. (eds) Rendering Techniques ’98. EGSR 1998. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6453-2_11

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