An approximate global illumination system for computer generated films

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 469-476

  Tabellion, Eric ^a   Lamorlette, Arnauld ^a  

^a DreamWorks ^*  (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Distributed ray tracing; Global illumination; Irradiance caching; Micro polygon; Rendering

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED RAY TRACING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; IRRADIANCE CACHING; MICRO-POLYGON; RENDERING;

ANIMATION; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ANIMATION;

DISTRIBUTED RAY TRACING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; IRRADIANCE CACHING; MICRO-POLYGON; RENDERING;

EID: 12844254285     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1015706.1015748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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