Correlated visibility sampling for direct illumination

Visual Computer

Volumn 22, Issue 9-11, 2006, Pages 693-701

  Ghosh, Abhijeet ^a   Heidrich, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo techniques; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RAY TRACING; SAMPLING; VISIBILITY;

METROPOLIS SAMPLING; OCCLUDED REGIONS; SHADOW; VISIBILITY SAMPLING;

LIGHTING;

EID: 33748544279     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-006-0055-x     Document Type: Article

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