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Image Acquisition
Modern image acquisition methods allow a representation of all image
structures at a high resolution, as one can see from this magnetic
resonance image of a mouse embryo.
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Image Acquisition
Acoustic microscopy is an imaging method that allows to display
mechanical properties such as cell stiffness on a micrometer scale.
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Computational Geometry
Computational geometry belongs to the important foundations for
computer graphics. This image shows a quadric.
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Image Analysis
Image processing deals with methods that transform a digital image into
another one that is more useful for humans or computers. Deblurring
a distorted image is a typical example.
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Global Illumination Effects
Global illumination effects increase the realism of computer generated
scenes significantly. Caustics caused by specular or refractive
objects are stunning visual effects, even more so in participating
media, where volumetric caustics can be observed.
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Reflection Editing
This image shows a user interface to edit reflections in a virtual 3D
scene. This allows an artist to drag and drop reflections over a
surface, until they fulfill an artistic goal.
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Scalable Visualization
One of the challenges in scientific visualization is to bring the ever
growing and ever more complex data sets to the right people in time, while
using a visualization metaphor tailored to those specific users.
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Image Synthesis
One of the main goals of computer graphics is to create highly
realistic simulations of our 3-D world, e.g. by sophisticated
ray tracing methods.
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From Real World Images to Synthetic Models
The Max Planck image shows the entire chain from image acquisition by a
3-D scanner over a surface representation to a realistic 3-D model.
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Application to Internet Services
Images that can be understood by humans and not by computers
avoid the misuse of internet services. Computer graphics and
pattern recognition methods allow the synthesis and validation of
such images.
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