Hierarchical photon mapping

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-61

  Spencer, B ^a   Jones, M W ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density estimation; Final gathering; Hierarchical; Photon mapping; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ESTIMATES; DENSITY ESTIMATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; FINAL GATHERING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIERARCHICAL; HIERARCHICAL EVALUATION; HIGH QUALITY; PHOTON DENSITIES; PHOTON MAPPING; PHOTOREALISTIC IMAGES;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES;

PHOTONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 59449088108     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.67     Document Type: Article

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