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From: "Christoph Lürig" <CLuerig@aol.com>
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Subject: Image Based Rendering
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 20:46:50 +0200
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Hello all!

I would be very interested if some console companies are considering to
implement concepts for image based rendering (like the Lumigraph concept
presented on SIGGRAPH 96 I think) including hardware support. I am
asking this, because I have an architetural application in mind, that
was presented on the last IEEE VRAIS, where the scene, that was out of
an actual room, but could be seen through an open door or passway, was
rendered as a lumigraph. On one hand this could be quite useful for some
situations, as rendering time is not influenced by scene complexity
here, but the problem is to keep memory consumption low.  I would be
interested if somebody knows if this concept is taken into serious
consideration or perhaps on the other hand is definitively rejected.

Christoph Lürig