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More recently, perhaps dating from the late 1990s, the hardware support required to perform the manipulation and rendering of quite complex scenes has become accessible to the consumer market. Companies such as Nvidia and AMD Graphics (formerly ATI ) are two current leading representatives of hardware vendors in this space.
A serotonin pathway identifies aggregate projections from neurons which synthesize and communicate the monoamine neurotransmitter serotonin. [ citation needed ] These pathways are relevant to different psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Serotonin (/ ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t oʊ n ɪ n, ˌ s ɪər ə-/) [6] [7] [8] or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is a monoamine neurotransmitter.Its biological function is complex, touching on diverse functions including mood, cognition, reward, learning, memory, and numerous physiological processes such as vomiting and vasoconstriction.
A study by Brown, Edwards, McKone and Ward (2007), [3] additionally investigated MDMA's effect on serotonin neurons. Their research also stemmed from Masini et al. (1990). [18] They were interested in serotonin's role in lateral inhibition to orientation sensitive neurons and how MDMA use may change this system and produce wider tuning ...
3D rendering is the 3D computer graphics process of converting 3D models into 2D images on a computer. 3D renders may include photorealistic effects or non-photorealistic styles. Rendering methods [ edit ]
A form of level of detail management has been applied to texture maps for years, under the name of mipmapping, also providing higher rendering quality. It is commonplace to say that "an object has been LOD-ed " when the object is simplified by the underlying LOD-ing algorithm as well as a 3D modeler manually creating LOD models.
Gaussian splatting is a newer method that can outperform NeRF in render time and fidelity. Rather than representing the scene as a volumetric function, it uses a sparse cloud of 3D gaussians. First, a point cloud is generated (through structure from motion) and converted to gaussians of initial covariance, color, and opacity. The gaussians are ...
Autodesk Arnold (also known as simply Arnold) is a computer program for rendering three-dimensional, computer-generated scenes using unbiased, physically-based, Monte Carlo path tracing techniques.