The holodeck ray cache: An interactive rendering system for global illumination in nondiffuse environments

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 361-398

  Ward, Gregory ^b   Simmons, Maryann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Shutterfly   (United States)

Author keywords

I.3.3 Computer Graphics : Picture Image Generation; I.3.6 Computer Graphics : Methodology and Techniques; I.3.7 Computer Graphics : Three Dimensional Graphics and Realism Raytracing; I.4.0 Image Processing : General Image displays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000311804     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/337680.337722     Document Type: Article

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