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Scenes are computer-generated images that attempt to depict images of the real or
an imagined world (see Scene figure). It turns out to be quite challenging to render
light and shadows accurately. Special effort must be taken so that the images do
not look too neat and simple; clouds, rocks, leaves, and dust in the real world have
a complex and somewhat random appearance. The degree of realism in these
images is constantly improving.
Manipulated images are photographs or film footage of actual events that have
been converted to digital form and edited by the computer (see Manipulated Image
figure). For example, film sequences in the movie Apollo 13 were produced by
starting from actual images and changing the perspective, showing the launch of
the rocket from a more dramatic viewpoint.
Computer graphics is one of the most challenging fields in computer science. It
requires processing of massive amounts of information at very high speed. New
algorithms are constantly invented for this purpose. Displaying an overlapping set
of three-dimensional objects
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