Radiance caching for efficient global illumination computation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 550-561

  Křivánek, Jaroslav ^b   Gautron, Pascal ^b   Pattanaik, Sumanta ^a,c   Bouatouch, Kadi ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional distribution; Global illumination; Hemispherical harmonics; Ray tracing; Spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HEMISPHERICAL HARMONICS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; RAY TRACING;

BUFFER STORAGE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LIGHTING;

EID: 25644432068     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.83     Document Type: Article

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