Steerable importance sampling

IEEE/ EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2007 Proceedings, IRT

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 133-140

  Subr, Kartic ^a   Arvo, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SURFACES; ASYMPTOTIC COST; BASIS FUNCTIONS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS PIECEWISE-LINEAR FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENT MAP; HEIGHT FIELDS; HIGHER ORDER; IMPORTANCE FUNCTION (IF); IMPORTANCE SAMPLING (IS); INCIDENT ILLUMINATION; INTERACTIVE RAY TRACING; LOCAL ORIENTATIONS; NORMALIZATION FACTORS; ORIENTABLE; PARAMETRIZATION; PIECEWISE-LINEAR (PWL) APPROXIMATION; PRE PROCESSING STEP; SPHERICAL HARMONIC (SH); SPHERICAL HARMONICS (SPHARM); SURFACE NORMALS; SURFACE ORIENTATIONS; TRIANGLE (CO); TRIVIAL CONSTANT; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAPS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RAY TRACING; SAMPLING; STEERING; TRIANGULATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 46749148487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RT.2007.4342601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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