Mean radiant temperature is central to our understanding of the radiant heat exchange
between the human body and surrounding environment. This paper will present a review of …

The seventh edition of this classic text outlines the fundamental physical principles of
thermal radiation, as well as analytical and numerical techniques for quantifying radiative …

Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Fourth Edition explores the art and science
of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the …

We present an integral equation which generalizes a variety of known rendering algorithms.
In the course of discussing a monte carlo solution we also present a new form of variance …

Photon map**, an extension of ray tracing, makes it possible to efficiently simulate global
illumination in complex scenes. Photon map** can simulate caustics (focused light, like …

The goal of image synthesis is to create, using the computer, a visual experience that is
identical to what a viewer would experience when viewing a real environment. Radiosity …

Over the past two decades there have been many major new developments in the field of
urban sound environment. Jian Kang introduces and examines these key developments …

Lambert's model for body reflection is widely used in computer graphics. It is used
extensively by rendering techniques such as radiosity and ray tracing. For several real-world …

A reformulated radiosity algorithm is presented that produces initial images in time linear to
the number of patches. The enormous memory costs of the radiosity algorithm are also …

An efficient ray tracing method is presented for calculating interreflections between surfaces
with both diffuse and specular components. A Monte Carlo technique computes the indirect …