• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.31-38
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• 2002

This paper presents a method for real-time 3D Sumi-e rendering us ing normal graphics hardware. Sumi-e is one of the traditional oriental painting styles. Most research on Sumi-e paintings has focused on 2D or :2.5D Sumi-e brushwork simulation. On these systems. complicated user's hand drawing is required to generate the image of Sumi-e effects. and it can render the 2D or 2.5D Sumi-e images only. We present an automated rendering system for 3D image of Sumi-e painting. It uses 3D common object as an input data and does not need any additional input of user brushwork. Especially for the real-time rendering. hardware-accelerated algorithm for Sumi-e rendering is newly suggested in our system. It is designed with efficiency for customer level graphics hard ware. The results of this paper show that the features of traditional Sumi-e painting are successfully modeled and that 3D Sumi-e painting is rendered in real-time effectively.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.113-123
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• 2022

Ray tracing-based rendering creates by far more realistic images than the traditional rasterization-based rendering. However, it is still burdensome when implemented for a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) system that demands a wide field of view and a high display refresh rate. Furthermore, for presenting high-quality images on the HMD screen, a sufficient number of ray sampling should be carried out per pixel to alleviate visually annoying spatial and temporal aliases. In this paper, we extend the recent selective foveated ray tracing technique by Kim et al. [1], and propose an improved real-time rendering technique that realizes the rendering effect of the classic Whitted-style ray tracing on the HMD system. In particular, by combining the ray tracing hardware-based acceleration technique and time-constrained rendering scheme, we show that fast HMD ray tracing is possible that is well suited to human visual systems.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.55-64
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• 2012

The advantage of direct volume rendering is to visualize structures of interest in the volumetric data. However it is still difficult to simultaneously show interior and exterior structures. Recently, cone beam computed tomography(CBCT) has been used for dental diagnosis. Despite of its usefulness, there is a limitation in the detection of interior structures such as pulp and inferior alveolar nerve canal. In this paper, we propose an efficient volume rendering model for visualizing important interior as well as exterior structures of dental CBCT. It is based on the concept of illustrative volume rendering and enhances boundary and silhouette of structures. Moreover, we present a new method that assigns a different color to structures in the rear so as to distinguish the front ones from the rear ones. This proposed rendering model has been implemented on graphics hardware, so that we can achieve interactive performance. In addition, we can render teeth, pulp and canal without cumbersome segmentation step.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.1239-1247
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• 2005

Basically, objects are discriminated by transfer functions in volume rendering . However, in some cases objects cannot be discriminated only with transfer functions. In these cases, objects are pre-segmented with other methods, and visualized based on the segmentation information. In this paper we present a way of assigning per-object transparency in visualization of segmented volumes. Semi-transparent rendering is used to effectively give context information about the observed object. Per-object transparency can be used as a very effective visualization tool especially when it is difficult to adjust transfer functions to make the object semi-transparent. We present several interpretations of the meaning of per-object transparency, and corresponding variations of the algorithm. We show that efficient implementations for interactive use are possible, by presenting an implementation using general graphics hardware.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 1996

Bump mapping is an elegant rendering technique to simulate wrinkled surfaces such as bark, which enables to produce more realistic image than texture-mapped one. This paper presents a new algorithm for bump mapping along with a hardware architecture to run our algorithm in real-time. The proposed approach is more efficient than previous one, and in particular, our hardware architecture is simpler to implement.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.181-187
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 3D 텍스쳐 매핑 하드웨어(texture mapping hardware)하에서 OpenGL를 이용하여 빠른 추출(classification) 및 음영처리(shading)를 가능하게 하는 직접 볼륨 렌더링(direct volume rendering) 방법을 제안한다. 추출과정을 위해 lookup table을 통해서 볼륨 데이터의 밀도값(density)으로부터 불투명도(opacity)값을 얻어내고, 법선 벡터 블렌딩(normal blending)방법을 제안하여 볼륨 크기에 상관없이 최종 이미지에서만 음영 처리 연산을 수행한다. 본 논문에서 제시된 볼륨 렌더링의 전과정이 그래픽스 하드웨어(graphics hardware)에서 이뤄지면, 음영처리 연산의 복잡도 감소로 인하여 상호 대화적인 볼륨 렌더링이 가능하다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.3 s.35
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• pp.345-352
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• 2005

This paper aims to design Game Rendering Engine for real-time 3D online games. Previous, in order to raise rendering speed, BSP tree was used to partitioned space in Quake Game Engine. A game engine is required to develop for rapidly escalating of 3D online games in Korea. too. Currently rendering time is saved with the hardware accelerator which is working on the high-level computer system. On the other hand, a game engine is needed to save rendering time for users with low-level computer system. Therefore, a game rendering engine is which reduces rendering time by PVS look-up table using Empty space BSP tree designed and implemented in this paper

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.431-439
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• 2002

Due to the recent development of graphics hardware, real-time rendering of complex scenes is still a challenging task. As results of researches on image based rendering, the rendering schemes based on post-rendering 3D warping have been proposed. In general, these methods produce good rendering results. However, they are not appropriate for real-time rendering since it is not easy to accelerate the time-consuming algorithms within graphics subsystem. As an attempt to resolve this problem of the post-rendering 3D warping technique, we present a new real-time scheme based on projective texture. In our method, two reference images obtained by rendering complicated objects at two consecutive points of time are used. Rendering images of high quality for intermediate points of time are obtained by projecting the reference images onto a simplified object, and then blending the resulting images. Our technique will be effectively used in developing real-time graphics applications such as 3D games and virtual reality software and so on.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.175-180
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• 2003

In this paper, we present a new method for early depth test for a 3D rendering engine. We add a filter stage to the rasterizer in the 3D rendering engine, in an attempt to identify and avoid the occluded pixels. This filtering block determines if a pixel is hidden by a certain plane. If a pixel is hidden by the plane, it can be removed. The simulation results show that the filter reduces the number of pixels to the next stage up to 71.7%. As a result, 67% of memory bandwidth is saved with simple extra hardware.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.3_4
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• pp.195-203
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• 2004

VolumePro is a real-time volume rendering hardware for consumer PCs. However it cannot be used for the applications requiring perspective projection such as virtual endoscopy since it provides only orthographic projection. Several methods have been presented to approximate perspective projection by decomposing a volume into slabs and applying successive parallel projection to thou. But it takes a lot of time since the entire region of every slab should be processed, which does not contribute to final image. In this paper, we propose an efficient perspective projection method that makes the use of several sub-volumes with cropping feature of VolumePro. It reduces the rendering time in comparison to slab-based method without image quality deterioration since it processes only the parts contained in the view frustum.