Automatic Bounding of Programmable Shaders for Efficient Global Illumination

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Velázquez Armendáriz, Edgar ^a   Zhao, Shuang ^a   Hašan, Miloš ^a   Walter, Bruce ^a   Bala, Kavita ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

global illumination; interval arithmetic; many lights

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024292084     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: 15577368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1618452.1618488     Document Type: Article

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