Micro-Rendering for Scalable, Parallel Final Gathering

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Ritschel, T ^a   Grosch, T ^a   Seidel, H P ^a   Engelhardt, T ^b   Dachsbacher, C ^b   Kautz, J ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

final gathering; global illumination; GPU; real time rendering

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024281572     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1618452.1618478     Document Type: Article

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