Bidirectional importance sampling for unstructured direct illumination

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-278

  Wang, Rui ^a   Åkerlund, Oskar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DIRECT ILLUMINATION; ENVIRONMENT MAPS; INDIRECT LIGHTINGS; PIECEWISE-CONSTANT APPROXIMATION; RECENT RESEARCHES; SAMPLING PROCESS; SAMPLING VARIANCES; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

EID: 63049130233     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01366.x     Document Type: Article

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