A rendering equation for specular transfers and its integration into global illumination

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages C283-C292

  Yu, Yizhou ^a   Wu, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b General Magic Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Meshing; Radiosity; Ray tracing; Rendering equation; Specular transfer; Wavefront tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; WAVEFRONTS;

RADIOSITY METHOD; RENDERING EQUATION; SPECULAR TRANSFER;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 0031552980     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8659.00165     Document Type: Article

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