Approximate ray-tracing on the GPU with distance impostors

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 695-704

  Szirmay Kalos, László ^a   Aszódi, Barnabás ^a   Lazányi, István ^a   Premecz, Mátyás ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; REFLECTION;

DISTANCE IMPOSTORS; MAPPED REFLECTIONS; MULTIPLE REFRACTIONS; REFRACTOR SURFACE;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84879856914     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2005.0m894.x     Document Type: Article

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