Front Cover -- Point-based Graphics -- Copyright Page -- About the Editors -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Book Organization -- 1.3 Common Issues and Reoccurring Patterns -- 1.4 Acknowledgments -- Chapter 2. The Early History Of Point-Based Graphics -- 2.1 Sample-based Representations of Geometry -- 2.2 Image-order versus Object-order Visibility and Antialiasing -- 2.3 The Challenge Posed By Procedural Modeling -- 2.4 The Curious Case of Displacement Mapping -- 2.5 Points and Micropolygons to the Rescue -- 2.6 The Current Renaissance in Point Graphics -- Chapter 3. Acquisition -- 3.1 Acquisition of Point-sampled Geometry -- 3.2 A Practical Low-cost Scanner for Geometry and Appearance -- 3.3 Point-based 3D Photography -- Chapter 4. Foundations and Representations -- 4.1 Surface Reconstruction -- 4.2 Moving Least Squares-based Surface Representations -- 4.3 Sampling of Point Models -- 4.4 Efficient Data Structures -- 4.5 Real-time Refinement -- Chapter 5. Digital Processing -- 5.1 Preprocessing and Filtering of Point Models -- 5.2 3D Editing and Painting -- 5.3 Shape Modeling -- Chapter 6. Rendering -- 6.1 Splatting Fundamentals -- 6.2 GPU Splatting -- 6.3 Ray Tracing of Point Models -- 6.4 Rendering of Very Large Models -- 6.5 Sequential Point Trees -- Chapter 7. Physics-Based Animation -- 7.1 Meshless Finite Elements -- 7.2 Animation of Fracturing Material -- 7.3 Fluid Simulation -- Chapter 8. Selected Topics -- 8.1 Point-sampled 3D Video -- 8.2 Statistical Representations -- 8.3 Visualization of Attributed 3D Point Datasets -- 8.4 Point Clouds and Brick Maps for Movie Productions -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the CD-ROM.