摘要
Over the forty-year history of interactive computer graphics, there have beencontinuous advances, but at some stage this progression must terminate with images beingsufficiently realistic for all practical purposes. How much detail do we really need? Polygon countsover a few million imply that on average each polygon paints less than a single pixel, making useof polygon shading hardware wasteful. We consider the problem of determining how much realism isrequired for a variety of applications. We discuss how current trends in computer graphics hardware,and in particular of graphics cards targeted at the computer games industry, will help or hinderachievement of these requirements. With images now being so convincingly realistic in many cases,critical faculties are often suspended and the images are accepted as correct and truthful althoughthey may well be incorrect and sometimes misleading or untruthful. Display resolution has remainedlargely constant in spatial terms for the last twenty years and in terms of the number of pixels hasincreased by less than an order of magnitude. If the long-promised breakthroughs in displaytechnology are finally realised, how should we use the increased resolution?
Over the forty-year history of interactive computer graphics, there have beencontinuous advances, but at some stage this progression must terminate with images beingsufficiently realistic for all practical purposes. How much detail do we really need? Polygon countsover a few million imply that on average each polygon paints less than a single pixel, making useof polygon shading hardware wasteful. We consider the problem of determining how much realism isrequired for a variety of applications. We discuss how current trends in computer graphics hardware,and in particular of graphics cards targeted at the computer games industry, will help or hinderachievement of these requirements. With images now being so convincingly realistic in many cases,critical faculties are often suspended and the images are accepted as correct and truthful althoughthey may well be incorrect and sometimes misleading or untruthful. Display resolution has remainedlargely constant in spatial terms for the last twenty years and in terms of the number of pixels hasincreased by less than an order of magnitude. If the long-promised breakthroughs in displaytechnology are finally realised, how should we use the increased resolution?
基金
国家自然科学基金
