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Computer Science and Engineering COMPUTER GRAPHI REAL-TIME RENDE REAL-TIME RENDERING COMPUTER GRAPHICS with CONTROL ENGINEERING Gabriyel Wong REAL-TIME Jianliang Wang Consumers today expect extremely realistic imagery generated in real time for interactive applications such as computer games, virtual prototyping, and sci- C S with entific visualisation. However, the increasing demands for fidelity coupled with RENDERING rapid advances in hardware architecture pose a challenge: how do you find opti- mal, sustainable solutions to accommodate both speed of rendering and quality? COMPUTER GRAPHICS Real-Time Rendering: Computer Graphics with Control Engineering presents a CONTROL novel framework for solving the perennial challenge of resource allocation and the with CONTROL ENGINEERING trade-off between quality and speed in interactive computer graphics rendering. Conventional approaches, mainly based on heuristics and algorithms, are largely application specific, and offer fluctuating performance, particularly as applica- tions become more complex. The solution proposed by the authors draws on powerful concepts from control engineering to address these shortcomings. Ex- R ENG panding the horizon of real-time rendering techniques, this book: ING • Explains how control systems work with real-time computer graphics INEERIN • Proposes a data-driven modelling approach that more accurately represents the system behaviour of the rendering process • Develops a control system strategy for linear and non-linear models using proportional, integral, derivative (PID) and fuzzy control techniques G • Uses real-world data from rendering applications in proof-of-concept experi- ments • Compares the proposed solution to existing techniques • Provides practical details on implementation, including references to tools and source code This pioneering work takes a major step forward by applying control theory in the context of a computer graphics system. Promoting cross-disciplinary research, it offers guidance for anyone who wants to develop more advanced solutions for Wong real-time computer graphics rendering. Wang Gabriyel Wong K18998 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW Jianliang Wang Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487 711 Third Avenue an informa business New York, NY 10017 2 Park Square, Milton Park Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK CAT#K18998 cover.indd 1 9/2/13 8:37 AM About the pagination of this eBook Due to the unique page numbering of this book, the electronic pagination of the eBook does not match the pagination of the printed version. To navigate the text, please use the electronic Table of Contents or the Search function. REAL-TIME RENDERING COMPUTER GRAPHICS with CONTROL ENGINEERING AUTOMATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING A Series of Reference Books and Textbooks Series Editors FRANK L. LEWIS, Ph.D., SHUZHI SAM GE, Ph.D., Fellow IEEE, Fellow IFAC Fellow IEEE Professor Professor The Univeristy of Texas Research Institute Interactive Digital Media Institute The University of Texas at Arlington The National University of Singapore PUBLISHED TITLES Real-Time Rendering: Computer Graphics with Control Engineering, Gabriyel Wong; Jianliang Wang Anti-Disturbance Control for Systems with Multiple Disturbances, Lei Guo; Songyin Cao Tensor Product Model Transformation in Polytopic Model-Based Control, Péter Baranyi; Yeung Yam; Péter Várlaki Fundamentals in Modeling and Control of Mobile Manipulators, Zhijun Li; Shuzhi Sam Ge Optimal and Robust Scheduling for Networked Control Systems, Stefano Longo; Tingli Su; Guido Herrmann; Phil Barber Advances in Missile Guidance, Control, and Estimation, S.N. Balakrishna; Antonios Tsourdos; B.A. White End to End Adaptive Congestion Control in TCP/IP Networks, Christos N. 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Lehman (1868–1953) Contents List of Figures ........................................................................................................ xiii List of Tables ..........................................................................................................xvii List of Abbreviations...............................................................................................xix Preface.....................................................................................................................xxi Acknowledgements .............................................................................................. xxiii Summary ................................................................................................................xxv
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