Cube mapping was first proposed in 1986 by Ned Greene in his paper “Environment Mapping and Other Applications of … See more

Cube mapping is preferred over other methods of environment mapping because of its relative simplicity. Also, cube mapping produces results that are similar to those obtained by ray tracing, but is much more computatio… See more

If a new object or new lighting is introduced into scene or if some object that is reflected in it is moving or changing in some manner, then the reflection changes and the cube map must be re-rendered. When the cube map is affix… See more

Computer-aided design (CAD) programs use specular highlights as visual cues to convey a sense of surface curvature when rendering 3D objects. However, many CAD programs exhibit problems in sampling specular hi… See more

A cube texture indexes six texture maps from 0 to 5 in order Positive X, Negative X, Positive Y, Negative Y, Positive Z, Negative Z. The images are stored with the origin at the lower left of the image. The Positive X and Y face… See more

• Quadrilateralized spherical cube
• Spherical image projection See more