Accelerating path tracing by re-using paths

Eurographics Workshop on Rendering

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 125-134

  Bekaert, Philippe ^a   Sbert, Mateu ^b   Halton, John ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOISE ABATEMENT; RAY TRACING;

PATH TRACING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036986466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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