The Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF) is a suitable representation for the appearance of highly detailed surface structures under varying illumination and viewing conditions. Since real-time rendering of the full BTF data is currently not feasible, approximations of the six-dimensional BTF are used such that the amount of data is reduced and current graphics hardware can be exploited. While ...

The evolution of texture was discussed during the formation of ultra-fine and nano grains in a magnesium alloy severely deformed through accumulative back extrusion (ABE). The microstructure and texture obtained after applying multiple deformation passes at temperatures of 100 and 250°C were characterized. The results showed that after single ABE pass at 100°C an ultrafine/nano grained microstr...

We examine apparent motion carried by textural properties. The texture stimuli consist of a sequence of grating patches of various spatial frequencies and amplitudes. Phases are randomized between frames to insure that first-order motion mechanisms directly applied to stimulus luminance are not systematically engaged. We use ambiguous apparent motion displays in which a heterogeneous motion pat...

To apply empty space skipping in texture-based volume rendering, we partition the texture space with a box-growing algorithm. Each sub-texture comprises of neighboring voxels with similar densities and gradient magnitudes. Sub-textures with similar range of density and gradient magnitude are then packed into larger ones to reduce the number of textures. The partitioning and packing is independe...