The Mathematics of Beautiful Graphics

Name: The Mathematics of Beautiful Graphics
Start: 2026-11-05T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-05T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Kansas State University

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When: Thursday, November 5, 202612:00 PM – 1:00 PM CSTAdd to calendar Google Calendar
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Art and Math Seminar presents

Speaker: Steve Trettel

Abstract: Photorealistic computer-generated images are everywhere—from blockbuster films to video games to architectural visualization. Modern software tends to hide the mathematics behind them, but it's beautiful stuff: differential geometry, measure theory, and statistics all play essential roles. In this talk, we'll see how simple questions about light and color naturally lead to an infinite-dimensional problem with a curious recursive structure—to compute anything, you seemingly need to have already computed everything. The way out is to recast the problem as integration over a space of light paths. Different visual phenomena—mirrors, glass, fog - correspond to different measures on this space

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