PantaRay: Fast ray-traced occlusion caching of massive scenes

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pantaleoni, Jacopo ^a   Fascione, Luca ^b   Hill, Martin ^b   Aila, Timo ^a  

^a NVIDIA   (United States)

^b WETA DIGITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Caching; Global illumination; Out of core; Precomputed radiance transfer

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION STRUCTURES; ARBITRARY POINTS; CACHING; GEOMETRY PROCESSING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY; OUT-OF-CORE; OUT-OF-CORE ALGORITHMS; PRECOMPUTED RADIANCE TRANSFER; PRECOMPUTING; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 77956391241     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1778765.1778774     Document Type: Article

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