The photon pipeline revisited : A hardware architecture to accelerate photon mapping

Visual Computer

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 479-492

  Singh, Shawn ^a   Faloutsos, Petros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Graphics hardware; Photon mapping

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; GRAPHICS HARDWARE; PHOTON MAPPING; REAL TIME GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTONS; RAY TRACING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 34249888747     PISSN: 01782789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-007-0123-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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