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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Visual effects"”.
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Droplets, splashes and sprays: highly detailed liquids in visual effects production.
… or under-appreciated feature of the visual effects pipeline is the sheer quantity of components and layers that go into a single shot, or even, single effect. Liquids, often combining waves, splashes, droplets and sprays, are a particular example of this. Whilst there has been a huge …
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VFX – A New Frontier: The Impact of Innovative Technology on Visual Effects
Although Visual Effects (VFX) are an increasingly important element of the media content demanded by audiences, of media production (filmmaking and storytelling) and of the media industries, VFX remains a relatively under-research area within academic media or film studies. Innovations in …
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Innovative visual effects in printed and dyed textiles for fashion: the combination of various printing techniques for coloration and relief effects
… on the design and production of innovative visual effects in fashion fabrics, in particular on textile printing and the use of certain printing techniques to impart a relief surface to the cloth. Close attention has been paid to fashion trends and forecasts in order to develop innovative …
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Inducing Emotional Response in Interactive Media
… can be affected with simple after-the-fact audio-visual effects. As subjects of the study, participants experience three different emotional states, fear, peace, and none, over three rounds and in three different game environments. They are given a simple narrative in each environment that directs …
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Lattice Boltzmann liquid simulations on graphics hardware
Fluid simulation is widely used in the visual effects industry. The high level of detail required to produce realistic visual effects requires significant computation. Usually, expensive computer clusters are used in order to reduce the time required. However, general purpose Graphics Processing …
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Computer graphics simulation of organic and inorganic optical and morphological appearance changes.
… corpse decomposition and the environmental effects on its surface can help improve the realism of computer generated scenes and provide the impression of a living, dynamic environment. The aim of this doctorate thesis is to simulate post mortem processes of the human body and their visual …
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A comparison of the effects of reading from a VDU and from paper as measured in terms of reading speed and comprehension
This study investigates the legibility and visual effects of eight combinations of font and colour on VDU and two different fonts on paper. Forty subjects, sixteen females and twenty-four males, were exposed to three of the ten different conditions, one in each of the set of readings, on either VDU …
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Interactive tools for biomechanical modeling and realistic animation
… demonstrate the applications of our tools to the visual effects industry with several animations of the human hand and applications to the biomechanics community with a novel model of the human shoulder.
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High-level control of agent-based crowds by means of general constraints
The use of computer-generated crowds in visual effects has grown tremendously since the warring armies of virtual ores and elves were seen in The Lord of the Rings. These crowds are generated by agent-based simulations, where each agent has the ability to reason and act for itself. This autonomy is …
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Comparison of performance for visual feedback and cursors in mid-air grasping of 3D objects
While investigating the performance benefits of visual feedback for grasping in midair interaction based virtual reality simulations, some studies noted that user performance in tasks has not improved when using visual feedback methods, while it has improved in other, similar studies. This thesis …
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Artistic and semantic progressive image coding
… images. We propose to render different artistic visual effects and leverage semantic information in the images. The key insight is human visual system is more sensitive to luminance and semantic salient objects. Our learning based progressive coding approach learns to encode a smooth transition …
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Visual vibration analysis
… nondestructive testing, surveillance, and even visual effects for film. By imaging the vibrations of objects, we offer cameras as low-cost vibration sensors with dramatically higher spatial resolution than the devices traditionally used in engineering. In doing so, we turn every camera into a …
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The Multifaceted Implications of Light for Psychological Well-Being and Mood
… of exposure, all play an important role on its effects on psychophysiological functions. The way in which studies have previously quantified light (based on intensity), has been found to be inadequate since it does not consider the spectrum of light which influences non-visual effects. Among …
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Physically Realistic Rendering of Complex Materials Using Wave optics
Compelling visual effects and immersive virtual environments demand realistic material models that describe how light interacts with them. Important appearance effects are missing in conventional material models due to the built-in ray optics assumption. For example, rendered backlit hair is much …
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(At)testing Virtue: Shine and the Materiality of Metals in the Construction of Habsburg Nobility (1477–1519)
… materialia, I show how metallic matter and its visual effects were sought out to materialise the position of Maximilian and his dynasty in a cosmological hierarchy of divine grace. At the core of this study stands the poetic and epistemic slippage between material and moral virtues (virtutes) as …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
… These are tailored to extend the means and visual effects of acrylic painting processes in generating illusions as abstractions. This results in four bodies of work, each exploring the oscillating relations between the eye and the body, illusion and materiality, stasis and motion, flatness …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
… These are tailored to extend the means and visual effects of acrylic painting processes in generating illusions as abstractions. This results in four bodies of work, each exploring the oscillating relations between the eye and the body, illusion and materiality, stasis and motion, flatness …
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Visual memory for recent information
A visual memory may contribute to perception by providing a source of hypotheses against which current input is tested. To make this contribution it should neither require active processes for its maintenance nor be overwritten by subsequent visual events. There is little evidence for a visual …
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Physics-based modelling, simulation, placement and learning for musculo-skeletal animations.
In character production for Visual Effects, the realism of deformations and flesh dynamics is a vital ingredient of the final rendered moving images shown on screen. This work is a collection of projects completed at the hosting company MPC London focused on the main components needed for the …
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Efficient sketch-based 3D character modelling.
… the advancement of technology used in designing visual effects for film, TV and games, the demand for highly realistic 3D character models has skyrocketed. To allow artists to create 3D character models quickly, researchers have proposed several techniques for efficient character modelling from …
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