An efficient GPU-based approach for interactive global illumination

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Rui ^a   Weng, Rui ^b   Zhou, Kun ^a   Pan, Minghao ^a   Bao, Hujun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Final gather; Global illumination; GPU; Illumination cut; K means; Photon mapping

Indexed keywords

FINAL GATHER; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; GPU; ILLUMINATION CUT; K-MEANS; PHOTON MAPPING;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; MAPPING; PHOTONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 70349689982     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1531326.1531397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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