Hardware-accelerated global illumination by image space photon mapping

Proceedings of the HPG 2009: Conference on High-Performance Graphics 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 77-90

  Mcguire, Morgan ^a   Luebke, David ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NVIDIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Photon mapping; Photon volumes

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI PROBABILITIES; CENTER OF PROJECTIONS; COMPLEX SCENES; EMITTED PHOTONS; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HARDWARE-ACCELERATED; HIGH QUALITY; ILLUMINATION EFFECT; IMAGE SPACE; INDIRECT ILLUMINATION; INTER-REFLECTION; K-D TREE; LOW FREQUENCY; MOVING OBJECTS; OFFLINE; PATH SEGMENTS; PHOTON MAPPING; PIN-HOLE CAMERAS; RASTERIZING; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; RUSSIAN ROULETTE; UPSAMPLING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; LIGHT; MAPPING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 70450192674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1572769.1572783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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