Efficient reflectance and visibility approximations for environment map rendering

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 495-502

  Green, Paul ^a   Kautz, Jan ^b   Durand, Frédo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONFORMAL MAPPING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT REFLECTION; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISIBILITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

GLOSSY REFLECTIONS; ISOTROPIC GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; LOW-FREQUENCY APPROXIMATION; NONLINEAR APPROXIMATION; REAL-TIME FRAME RATES; SELF OCCLUSION; VISUAL QUALITIES; WEIGHTED SUM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS);

EID: 35348975565     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2007.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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