Bachelor of Science: Procedural Texture in Real-Time with OpenGL

Presentation

This work was done during by Bachelor Degree of Science as a part of the MMFAI (Master in Fondamental and Applies Mathematics and Computer Science at the ENS Paris, France) within the iMagis laboratory supervised by Fabrice Neyret.

Keywords: Procedural Textures, Perlin Noise, OpenGL, Real-time, Multipasses.

Note

Procedural textures similar to the ones described in this research can now be implemented much more easily and without the need for multi-pass rendering on modern graphic cards thanks to hardware pixel shaders.

Documents

You can download my Bachelor of Science report in compressed Postscript format (1.6 Mo), or in Acrobat PDF format (1.1 Mo), in French only.

During this work, I implemented a small library : the GLP Library which allows you to render procedural textures in OpenGL.

Some images I rendered during this work.

Fabrice Neyret also wrote an INRIA REsearch Report (RR-3713) about this work.

Fabrice has a page about this work (with images !).

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