The Lumigraph The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Gortler, Steven J., Radek Grzeszczuk, Richard Szeliski, and Michael F. Cohen. 1996. The Lumigraph. Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques (SIGGRAPH 1996), August 4-9, 1996, New Orleans, Louisiana, ed. SIGGRAPH, Holly Rushmeier, and Theresa Marie Rhyne, 43-54. Computer graphics annual conference series. New York, N.Y.: Association for Computing Machinery. 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