GENERATING REALISTIC IMAGES OF SPATIALLY ARRANGED COMPLEX OBJECTS

Machines, buildings and other technical structures which make up modern production plants are growing more and more complex. Due to given demands they usually have to be designed and built in very short periods of time. To improve a product it is therefore desirable to obtain a realistic impression of the objects to be constructed and assembled at a very early stage of planning and design. Modern computer technology renders possible the generation of realistic images of complex three dimensional scenes composed of various kinds of single objects. Properties like the objects' surface structures and colours can be taken into consideration as well as translucency or transparency of parts to be displayed, and the illumination of the entire scene. A concept of a system for synthesising such photo realistic pictures from design data generated by a nonmanifold geometric modelling system is being presented.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proc. 8th Intn. Conference, Offshore Mechanics & Arctic Engng., Volume VI (1989) p.205 [6 p., 31 ref., 3 fig.]
• Authors:
  • Hansmann, W
• Publication Date: 1989

Language

• English

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer aided design
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00696817
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM