Computer graphics techniques for realistic modeling, rendering and animation of water. Part I: 1980-88

Abstract

The realistic representation of natural phenomena has a long tradition in computer graphics. Among the natural objects, one of the most interesting (and most difficult to deal with) is water. During the last two decades a number of papers on computer graphics techniques for modeling and rendering of water have been published. However, the computer graphics community still lacks a survey classifying the vast literature on this topic, which is certainly unorganized and dispersed and hence, difficult to follow. This is the first of a series of two papers (both included in this volume) intended to fill this gap. Our aim is to offer a unifying survey of the most relevant computer graphics techniques for realistic modeling, rendering and animation of water. In this paper we focus on the methods developed during the period 1980-88. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.