We introduce a tiled 3D MIP map representation of global illumination data. The representation is an adaptive, sparse octree with a “brick” at each octree node; each brick con...
Ray tracing and Monte-Carlo based global illumination, as well as radiosity and other finite-element based global illumination methods, all require repeated evaluation of quantita...
Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Daniel Cohen-Or, Dani Lischin...
The GPU leverages SIMD efficiency when shading because it rasterizes a triangle at a time, running the same shader on all of its fragments. Ray tracing sacrifices this shader cohe...
Jared Hoberock, Victor Lu, Yuntao Jia, John C. Har...
Most illuminant estimation algorithms work with the assumption of one specific type of the light source (e.g. point light source or directional light source). This assumption brin...
Generating soft shadows in real time is difficult. Exact methods (such as ray tracing, and multiple light source simulation) are too slow, while approximate methods often overesti...
Xiao-Hua Cai, Yun-Tao Jia, Xi Wang, Shi-Min Hu, Ra...