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The Book "Radiosity and Realistic Image Generation" is dedicated to only one realistic image generation method, the radiosity method. And nothing else. The authors were very much involved in defining the radiosity method and they have developed and published some of the basic techniques and a lot of the advanced algorithms for the radiosity method and it shows. The book covers all aspects of this image generation process in great detail.lt;pgt;This book is very well structured and explains the radiosity method in a very illustrative way. In order to understand the radiosity method, one has to appreciate the mathematical and physical fundaments of this elegant image generation method, and the authors do a great job in carefully defining and introducing all of these fundaments. The radiosity method is quite complex and requires and a lot of acceleration techniques have been introduced during the late 80s and early 90s. This book covers them all. lt;pgt;I dont see any negative aspects about this book. Yes, it is quite mathematical, but there is no other way to cover all details of the radiosity method. This book is the reference.
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Radiosity and Realistic Image Synthesis Michael F. Cohen John R. Wallace Academic Press Professional Boston San Diago New York London Syndey Tokyo Toronto Copyright (c) 1995 by Academic Press, Inc. GRAPHICS GEMS copyright (c) 1990 by Academic Press, Inc. GRAPHICS GEMS II copyright (c) 1991 by Academic Press, Inc. GRAPHICS GEMS III copyright (c) 1992 by Academic Press, Inc. QUICK REFERENCE TO COMPUTER GRAPHICS TERMS copyright (c) 1993 by Academic Press, Inc. RADIOSITY AND REALISTIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS copyright (c) 1993 by Academic Press Inc. VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS AND EXPLORATIONS copyright (c) 1993 by Academic Press Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this product may be reproduced or transmitted in any fo