Cumulus cloud synthetic rendering techniques and their evaluations

Authors:
Manil Maskey;Timothy S. Newman
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama;Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama
Venue:
Machine Graphics & Vision International Journal
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Three new techniques for synthesizing realistic renderings of cumulus clouds are introduced and evaluated. The techniques utilize variations of the Perlin Noise and Koch fractals to achieve a reasonable cloud-like shape and texture. To evaluate the quality of renderings produced by the techniques, three classes of texture features are considered using cluster quality measures. Rendering quality is also evaluated versus real images using shape and texture features.