Virtual spherical lights for many-light rendering of glossy scenes

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Hašan, Miloš ^a   Křivánek, Jaroslav ^a,b   Walter, Bruce ^a   Bala, Kavita ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Global illumination; Glossy BRDF; Many lights

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LIMITATIONS; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIGH QUALITY IMAGES; MATRIX; PATH TRACING; PHOTON MAPPING; ROW-COLUMN; SAMPLING ALGORITHM; SOLID ANGLE; VIRTUAL POINTS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77749271188     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1661412.1618489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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