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FOR A MODERN HOLLYWOOD SCI-FI FLICK, THE MAKE-OR-break moment often boils down to an onstage audition in San Diego. That's where Comic-Con International, the yearly gathering of comic-book lovers, gaming [...]

When filmmakers think about bringing a storybook to life, they usually imagine re-creating the fantasy world by using animation or by putting actors into the roles of the storybook characters. […]

The quality of film performance from the perspectives of optic-flow axis and dynamic resolution and their effect on image portrayal systems is explained. Proper dynamic resolution is necessary for realism and can only be attained if the motion portrayal is correct. An optic-flow axis without distortion is needed for correct motion portrayal. An explanation of the frame rates and optic flow axis of motion picture film is presented.

A physically-based modeling of brush painting that uses elastic bristles that are placed at the bottom of the brush holder is presented. The bristles were patterned by examining the properties of elastic rods and their effect on the paper. The proposed model can produce graphic ink painting with natural and direct control. Furthermore, drawing complexity tremendously diminishes, and users can concentrate on the drawing itself and will allow less time on editing control points.

It's no secret that graphics and animation software are evolving at a rapid pace, allowing ideas to be executed faster and better. Hand-in-band with this evolution have come agency creatives […]

In his blue smoking jacket, white sneakers and sandy-grey muttonchop whiskers, Clive Smith bears an eerie resemblance to one of his company's own creations. Settled in an oversized green armchair [...]

The battle between the dedicated frame buffer and the UMA is a skirmish in the old war between available bandwidth and bandwidth consumption and between cost and performance. As the [...]

GRAPHICS-CHIP AND -BOARD MAKERS ARE GRAPPLING WITH THE NEXT TREND IN PC GRAPHICS: WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF 3-D ACCELERATION. UNDERSTANDING THE TRADE-OFFS INVOLVED IN 3-D ACCELERATION WILL KEEP EARLY ADOPTERS FROM [...]

DEDICATED GRAPHICS SUPPORT CHIPS ACCELERATE OPERATIONS TO IMPROVE DRAWING SPEEDS. Ever since the first graphics adapters were introduced for the PC or simple frame buffers were used in early workstations, […]

Three-dimensional stereographics technology offers several potential uses in business, art and entertainment, scientific analyses and other information-oriented activities. Computers are the ideal tools to create and present the three-dimensional illusion in still scenes, animation and virtual reality. Several contraptions have already been designed and marketed to bring the optical illusion to consumers while worldwide research in 3-D continues., 3-D stereographics--via computers--is emerging as a hot technology to sell products and services; for art and entertainment; for medical, geological and scientific analyses; and for other areas where people want [...]

In the best of all possible worlds, an animator could point imperiously at a computer graphics character and command, "You. Run down those stairs, quickly." And it would. An industrial […]

The use of photorealistic computer graphics can help jurors in aviation cases understand complex technical information. Dedicated mainframe computer graphics systems are still necessary for this technology, which after obtaining the necessary information from numerous databases processes it for pertinent features such as terrain with the photorealistic product as the final result. Although the cost of ordinary computer graphics has decreased enough for medium-sized litigation, the photorealistic version is still very expensive.

Innovations in computer graphics and manufacturing are coming together to make it possible for a product to be made directly after being constructed on a computer screen. The process is called stereolithography.