Interactive approximate rendering of reflections, refractions, and caustics

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-57

  Qin, Kaihuai ^a   Hu, Wei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

caustics; GPU; Interactive rendering; reflection; refraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHTING; REFRACTOMETRY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547716536     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.14     Document Type: Article

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