Fast approximate quantitative visibility for complex scenes

Proceedings - Computer Graphics International, CGI 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 220-227

  Chrysanthou, Yiorgos ^a   Cohen Or, Daniel ^b   Lischinski, Dani ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Discrete scene representations; Form factors; Global illumination; Quantitative visibility; Shadow rays

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAY TRACING;

FORM FACTORS; GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; PRE-PROCESSING STAGES; QUERY EVALUATION; SCENE REPRESENTATION; SHADOW RAYS;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 1442297701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGI.1998.694269     Document Type: Conference Paper

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