Eikonal rendering: Efficient light transport in refractive objects

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Ihrke, Ivo ^a   Ziegler, Gernot ^a   Tevs, Art ^a   Theobalt, Christian ^a   Magnor, Marcus ^b   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geometric optics; Light transport; Real time rendering; Refractive objects

Indexed keywords

INHOMOGENEOUS ATTENUATION; LIGHT RAYS; REAL TIME RENDERING; REFRACTIVE OBJECTS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHTING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34547650720     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1276377.1276451     Document Type: Article

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