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The goal of the project “Occursus Cum Novo” was to generate a complex photo-realistic animation of nontrivial length in reasonable time at reasonable costs. Photographic realism comprises complex geometric models as well as simulation of several optical effects. This paper starts with an introduction to the “Occursus Cum Novo” modeling environment. Following the toolkit approach, it offers a set of tools for textual, graphical interactive, and simulative modeling, embedded in the UNIX programming environment. The second part is devoted to rendering. Photo-realistic pictures generated by raytracing are still those of highest quality. However, due to the tremendous time of computation, raytraced animations are rather rare. An organization scheme for rendering on a network of work stations is described which enabled us to generate a 5-minutes raytraced animation within 2 months without affecting any of the regular users of the work stations. The results of the project are of general interest since they show a way for efficient high quality photo-realistic animation synthesis for the future.
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Leister, W., Maus, T., Müller, H., Neidecker, B., Stösser, A. (1988). “Occursus Cum Novo” - Computer Animation by Ray Tracing in a Network. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Thalmann, D. (eds) New Trends in Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83492-9_8
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