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Developing Digital Field Guides For Plants: A Study From The Perspective Of Users, Emily Roseanne Schwarz
Developing Digital Field Guides For Plants: A Study From The Perspective Of Users, Emily Roseanne Schwarz
Master's Theses
A field guide is a tool to identify an object of natural history. Field guides
cover a wide range of topics from plants to fungi, birds to mammals, and shells to minerals. Traditionally, field guides are books, usually small enough to be carried outdoors . They enjoy wide popularity in modern life; almost every American home and library owns at least one field guide, and the same is also true for other areas of the world.
At this time, companies, non-profits, and universities are developing computer
technologies to replace printed field guides for identifying plants. This thesis
examines the state …
Point-Based Color Bleeding With Volumes, Christopher J. Gibson
Point-Based Color Bleeding With Volumes, Christopher J. Gibson
Master's Theses
The interaction of light in our world is immensely complex, but with mod-
ern computers and advanced rendering algorithms, we are beginning to reach
the point where photo-realistic renders are truly difficult to separate from real
photographs. Achieving realistic or believable global illumination in scenes with
participating media is exponentially more expensive compared to our traditional
polygonal methods. Light interacts with the particles of a volume, creating com-
plex radiance patterns.
In this thesis, we introduce an extension to the commonly used point-based
color bleeding (PCB) technique, implementing volume scatter contributions. With
the addition of this PCB algorithm extension, we …