Questions tagged [scene-description]
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Standard ways to create xml scenes for research purposes
I am a newbie in computer graphics and just started working on physically based rendering engines such as Mitsuba.
I found it difficult to create my own scenes, that are xml files. To create one, ...
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Storing 3D animations for ray tracing
I've just finished writing a path tracer that takes OBJ files and renders it. This is convenient for still images, but my end goal was to export a sequence from a 3D application (Blender was what I ...
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SIFT Feature Extraction
I am trying to implement the SIFT feature extraction algorithm. I have a few questions which are not very clear from the paper:
When interpolating the extrema with 2nd order functions, do we upscale ...
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Free 3D Scene Simulation Framework [closed]
I want to visualize a scene with simple shapes (e.g. boxes, pyramides, etc.) and I am looking for a tool or framework in C/C++ to do this. Focus of the application is to parameterize the relative ...
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What is stereo about multi-view stereo?
What 3D scene reconstruction methods does the term "multi-view stereo" encompass? Is it only used for methods that apply binocular stereo algorithms (taking 2 views as input) in a pairwise manner? Or ...
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Can I parallelise the scene for a raytraced image, rather than just the pixels?
Raytracing an image can be performed in parallel by calculating the colour of different pixels on different machines. However, this still requires each machine to have access to the entire scene to be ...