Micro-rendering for scalable, parallel final gathering

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ritschel, T ^a   Engelhardt, T ^b   Grosch, T ^a   Seidel, H P ^a   Kautz, J ^c   Dachsbacher, C ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Final gathering; Global illumination; GPU; Real time rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SCENES; DYNAMIC SCENES; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIGH QUALITY; IMAGE SPACE; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; INTERACTIVE FRAME RATES; INTERACTIVE GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; INTERACTIVE RATES; PHOTON MAPS; POINT-BASED; REAL-TIME RENDERING; RENDERING QUALITY; SAMPLING RATES; SCALABLE METHODS; SCENE COMPLEXITY; SCENE REPRESENTATION; UPSAMPLING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; LOCATION; SCALABILITY;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 77749295655     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1661412.1618478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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