It is by now folklore that the bottom-up evaluation of a program after the “magic set” transformation is “as efficient as” top-down evaluation. There are a number of forma...
Soft shadows and penumbra regions generated by extended light sources such as linear and area lights are visual effects that significantly contribute to the realism of a scene. In ...
Wolfgang Heidrich, Stefan Brabec, Hans-Peter Seide...
Synthetic images can be parameterized by more than time or viewpoint. We generalize image-based rendering by exploiting texture-mapping graphics hardware to decompress ray-traced ...
Ziyad S. Hakura, Jerome Edward Lengyel, John M. Sn...
Rapidly simulating global illumination, including diffuse and glossy light transport is a very difficult problem. Finite element or radiosity approaches can achieve interactive si...
We propose solutions for seamlessly integrating synthetic objects into background photographs at interactive rates. Recently developed image-based methods are used to capture real...