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Réalisme socialiste
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The digital world we are living in today offers viewers an experience of buildings before they even exist. This experience is no longer just geometric or descriptive, but also sensory. It generates emotions through fixed or animated images of 3 dimensional ...
IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021Image-Based Acquisition and Modeling of Polarimetric Reflectance
Wenzel Alban Jakob, Tizian Lucien Zeltner, Xin Tong
Realistic modeling of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of scene objects is a vital prerequisite for any type of physically based rendering. In the last decades, the availability of databases containing real-world material measurem ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020Typological Problems of Housing in Vienna and Frankfurt
The purpose of this paper is to consider a number of valuable architectural accomplishments from the beginning of the XX century, built in Vienna (1919-1933) and Frankfurt am Main (1925-1931), by means of Aldo Rossi’s theoretical thought and analytical app ...
Il Poligrafo2020A Learned Shape-Adaptive Subsurface Scattering Model
Wenzel Alban Jakob, Delio Aleardo Vicini
Subsurface scattering, in which light refracts into a translucent material to interact with its interior, is the dominant mode of light transport in many types of organic materials. Accounting for this phenomenon is thus crucial for visual realism, but exp ...
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019Urban Development Processes: Methodological Investigation into the Complexity and Dynamics of Post-socialist Cities
The overall objective of this thesis is to critically address, break down and reassemble the urban development process in post-socialist cities through a set of analyses that covers urban planning strategies, real-estate interventions, participatory and ur ...
EPFL2017