Illumination networks: fast realistic rendering with general reflectance functions

  • Authors:
  • Chris Buchalew;Donald Fussell

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '89 Proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We present a technique for modeling global illumination which allows a wide variety of reflectance functions. Scene coherence is exploited in a preprocessing step in which the geometry is analyzed using iterative techniques. Memory is traded for speed, in anticipation of the high memory capacities of workstations of the future. The algorithm operates well over a wide range of time and image quality constraints: realistic results may be produced very quickly while very accurate results require more time and space. The method can be extended for animation and parallelization.