Real-time volume caustics with adaptive beam tracing

Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 47-54

  Liktor, Gábor ^a   Dachsbacher, Carsten ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam tracing; Levelof detail; Specular effects; Volume caustics

Indexed keywords

BEAM TRACING; LEVELOF-DETAIL; PARTICIPATING MEDIA; PHOTON DISTRIBUTIONS; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; REAL-TIME FRAME RATES; SAMPLING RESOLUTION; SCALABLE ALGORITHMS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE SCATTERING; SPECULAR EFFECTS; SPECULAR SURFACE; VOLUME CAUSTICS; VOLUMETRIC METHODS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 79952728669     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1944745.1944753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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