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Que jamais, autre que trahie par quelque reflexion
Jamais, telle qu'a l'origine. n'entrera dans ta ronde
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To fully understand the shape of metallic structures, designers need to
take into account the reflections from the surrounding environment.
In the AEC market, where oil platforms are designed, this type of
visualization often prevents very costly mistakes.
This is the reason why CadCentre (Cambridge, UK) asked the Core Technology
Group of Silicon Graphics (Cortaillod, Switzerland), to integrate the latest
techniques of "Texture Mapping" into their application Review - PDMS.
Chosen from among the projects undertaken by this partnership, an optimised
version of the "Environment Mapping" technique is presented here.
This technique is based principally on the calculation of a 360 degrees
Environment Map, taken from the centre of the object : for each point on the
surface of this object, the appropriate reflected color is computed using this
map as a lookup table for the surface normal at this point.
The Environment Map needs to be updated any time a modification of the
environment occurs; this data processing involves non-trivial mathematics.
When using a video source to integrate all or part of an existing environment,
it is thus necessary to recalculate the Environment Map for each frame.
By providing its user with the ability to acquire, process and interactively visualize scientific data in real time, the Silicon Graphics architecture ranks second to none in the AEC/CAD marketplace.
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