Real-time global illumination for VR applications

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 56-64

  Mortensen, Jesper ^a   Yu, Insu ^a   Khanna, Pankaj ^a   Tecchia, Franco ^b   Spanlang, Bernhard ^c   Marino, Giuseppe ^b   Slater, Mel ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data structures; Global illumination; Image generation; Light fields; Lighting; Pixel; Ray tracing; Real time systems; Reflection; Virtual reality; VR

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; FILE ORGANIZATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; REFLECTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CAVE AUTOMATIC VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; COLOR BLEEDING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; GLOBAL ILLUMINATIONS; IMAGE GENERATION; LIGHT FIELDS; SOFT SHADOWS; VR; VR APPLICATIONS; VR SYSTEMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ILLUMINATION; METHODOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGHTING; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 57049171419     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCG.2008.121     Document Type: Article

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