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Global illumination using photon maps
Proceedings of the eurographics workshop on Rendering techniques '96
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Ray tracing on programmable graphics hardware
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Low latency photon mapping using block hashing
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Fast Approximate Quantitative Visibility for Complex Scenes
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Photon mapping on programmable graphics hardware
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GPU algorithms for radiosity and subsurface scattering
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware
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ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
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Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation
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GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
A Virtual Light Field Approach to Global Illumination
CGI '04 Proceedings of the Computer Graphics International
Ray tracing on a stream processor
Ray tracing on a stream processor
KD-tree acceleration structures for a GPU raytracer
Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS conference on Graphics hardware
Multi-level ray tracing algorithm
ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Papers
Fast GPU ray tracing of dynamic meshes using geometry images
GI '06 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006
Modeling and Rendering of DPP-Based Light Fields
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Presence in response to dynamic visual realism: a preliminary report of an experiment study
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EGSR'05 Proceedings of the Sixteenth Eurographics conference on Rendering Techniques
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This paper describes an algorithm that provides fast propagation and real-time walkthrough for globally illuminated synthetic scenes. A type of light field data structure is used for propagating radiance outward from emitters through the scene, accounting for any kind of L(S|D) light path. The light field employed is constructed by choosing a regular point subdivision over a hemisphere, to give a set of directions, and then corresponding to each direction there is a rectangular grid of parallel rays. Each rectangular grid of rays is further subdivided into rectangular tiles, such that each tile references a sequence of 2D images containing outgoing radiances of surfaces intersected by the rays in that tile. We present a novel propagation algorithm running entirely on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). It is incremental in that it can resolve visibility along a set of parallel rays in O(n) time and can produce a light field for a moderately complex scene - with complex illumination stored in millions of elements - in minutes and for simpler scenes in seconds. It is approximate but gracefully converges to a correct solution as verified by comparing images with path traced counterparts. We show how to render globally lit images directly from the GPU data structure without CPU involvement at real-time frame rates and high resolutions.