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Triple Shadows and Fake Reflections: Future Graphics
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/1805/110909_Ritscheletal_Reflective_Image.large.jpg?1257791775&1257791774 "reflective metallic ring")
Film makers and artists sometimes use computer-generated imagery to show viewers an impossible reflection – for instance, a metallic ring clearly reflecting a character reaching down to grab it. A program designed by Tobias Ritschel and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, makes creating such reflections easy.
Credit: Tobias Ritschel et al / ACM Siggraph
At the second annual ACM SIGGRAPH Asia conference, which takes place December 16-19 in Yokohama, Japan, computer graphics professionals and researchers will demonstrate the most recent developments in graphics.
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