Acceleration of Monte Carlo path tracing in general environments

Proceedings - Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Perez F ^a,b   Martin I ^a   Sillion, F X ^b   Pueyo, X ^a  

^a GGG IIiA UdG   (Spain)

^b INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Clustering algorithms; Convergence; Finite element methods; Frequency; Lighting; Monte Carlo methods; Optical scattering; Probability density function

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ALGORITHMS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENHANCED MAGNETORESISTANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; LIGHTING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COMPUTING SOLUTIONS; CONVERGENCE; FREQUENCY; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; HIERARCHICAL METHOD; MONTE CARLO PATH TRACING; OPTICAL SCATTERING; PARTICIPATING MEDIA;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84949510709     PISSN: 15504085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PCCGA.2000.883883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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