
DENSITY ESTIMATION MODULE
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Olivie Ceulemans, Universite Caotholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-neuve
(Belgium) Master's thesis 1997-1998 carried out at the Kotholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

(this is an example of a good master thesis -PhB-)


Specifications are found in *.h files.


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Sampling phase
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SamplingProcess.h ,
SamplingProcess.C                  : Sampling algorithm.
    
EmissionStrategy.h ,               
EmissionStrategy.C ,              
UniformEmissionStrategy.C ,
CosThetaEmissionStrategy.C ,      
PatchEmissionStrategy.C ,
CombineEmissionStrategy.C          : Implementation of emission strategies.

SamplingStrategy.h ,
SamplingStrategy.C ,
UniformBRDFSamplingStrategy.C ,
CosThetaBRDFSamplingStrategy.C ,  
PhysicalBRDFSamplingStrategy.C ,
PatchBRDFSamplingStrategy.C ,
CosNThetaBRDFSamplingStrategy.C ,  
CombineBRDFSamplingStrategy.C      : Implementation of sampling strategies.

PatchProbabilityAssigner.h ,
PatchProbabilityAssigner.C         : Assignment of probabilities to surfaces.

Hemicube.h ,
Hemicube.C                         : Probabilities modulation using z-buffers.



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Disk storage
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Impact.h ,
Impact.C                           : Compressed impact information.

CompressedColor.h ,
CompressedColor.C                  : Compressed radiance encoding.

ImpactStore.h , 
ImpactStore.C                      : Impact storage (up to 25 GB storage !)




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Reconstruction and Simplification phases
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Kernel.h , 
Kernel.C                           :  Reconstruction kernels related files.

ScratchPad.h ,   
ScratchPad.C ,             
ScratchPadQuadrilateral.C ,
ScratchPadTriangular.C ,
ScratchPadDecimation.C             : Temporary surfaces for density estimation
                                     for 'as diffuse' and 'view dependent'
                                     reconstruction.

HemisphereScratchPad.h ,
HemisphereScratchPad.C             : Temporary surfaces for density estimation
                                     for 'multiple direction' reconstruction.

PerceivedLuminance.h ,
PerceivedLuminance.C               : Perceptual model used for simplification.

Surface.h ,
Surface.C                          : Final results memory storage.


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Decimation integration
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Subdirectory SE contains the Simplification Enveloppes code. 
(see reference in thesis)

plydecl.h ,
plydecl.C                          : ply input/output support.


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GUI
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ui_dest.h ,
ui_dest.C ,
ui_expert.h ,
ui_expert.C                        : user interface implementation 
                                     (Motif programming)

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Misc
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Common.h ,
Common.C                           : Utilities functions.

vector2d.h ,
vector2d.c                         : 2d vectors

dest.h ,
dest.C                             : main code.

