Acceleration of micro-geometry modeling of human skins

Abstract

We have been studying representation of micro-geometry of human skins applying computer graphics technologies. The technique renders furrows, ridges and pores as polygon models. However, this technique has two major problems: large computation time for polygon generation and large amount of generated polygon data. Therefore, we attempt to represent the micro-geometry by a shader program with normal mapping and displacement mapping to accelerate. This paper presents results of generating micro-geometry using that two mapping techniques.