A ray tracing algorithm for progressive radiosity

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 1989

Volumn , Issue , 1989, Pages 315-324

  Wallace, John R ^a   Elmquist, Kells A ^a   Haines, Eric A ^a  

^a 3D/EYE Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed ray tracing; Global illumination; Progressive refinement; Radiosity; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

APPROXIMATE RESULTS; DISTRIBUTED RAY TRACING; GLOBAL ILLUMINATION; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PROGRESSIVE REFINEMENT; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RADIOSITY; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84995152706     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/74333.74366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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