Real-time volume-based ambient occlusion

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 752-762

  Papaioannou, Georgios ^a   Menexi, Maria Lida ^a   Papadopoulos, Charilaos ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

ambient occlusion; ray marching; raytracing; Shading; shadowing; visibility; volume visualization

Indexed keywords

3-D ENVIRONMENTS; AMBIENT OCCLUSION; COMPLEX SCENES; DIFFUSE SURFACES; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; INTER-REFLECTION; MODERN ILLUMINATION; RAY MARCHING; REAL TIME GRAPHICS; REAL-TIME RENDERING; SAMPLING MECHANISMS; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; SURFACE REPRESENTATION; VISIBILITY CALCULATION; VOLUME VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

VISUALIZATION; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 77954624340     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.18     Document Type: Article

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