Global importance sampling of glossy surfaces using the photon map

RT'06: IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 133-140

  Steinhurst, Joshua ^a   Lastra, Anselmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Importance sampling; Interactive rendering; Photon mapping; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; INTERACTIVE RENDERING; PHOTON MAPPING;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 42549144422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RT.2006.280224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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