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Light Beam Tracing for Multi-Bounce Specular and Glossy Transport Paths

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SAICSIT '14: Proceedings of the Southern African Institute for Computer Scientist and Information Technologists Annual Conference 2014 on SAICSIT 2014 Empowered by Technology

Pages 199 - 208

https://doi.org/10.1145/2664591.2664610

Published: 29 September 2014 Publication History

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This paper describes a new extension to light beam tracing that includes glossy multi-bounce transport paths for more realistic rendering of caustics. A spherical Gaussian approximation of the glossy scatter distribution as well as Gauss' divergence theorem is used to develop an efficient solution that replaces the irradiance surface integral with a boundary line integral.

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Zhou YWu LRamamoorthi RYan L(2021)Vectorization for Fast, Analytic, and Differentiable VisibilityACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/345209740:3(1-21)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3452097
Guo HWang STang YLi YZhao J(2021)Research on Real-Time Rendering of Reflection Caustics in Water Scenes2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR)10.1109/ICVR51878.2021.9483863(46-53)Online publication date: 20-May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR51878.2021.9483863

Index Terms

Light Beam Tracing for Multi-Bounce Specular and Glossy Transport Paths
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing

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DOI:10.1145/2664591

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Zhou YWu LRamamoorthi RYan L(2021)Vectorization for Fast, Analytic, and Differentiable VisibilityACM Transactions on Graphics10.1145/345209740:3(1-21)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3452097
Guo HWang STang YLi YZhao J(2021)Research on Real-Time Rendering of Reflection Caustics in Water Scenes2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR)10.1109/ICVR51878.2021.9483863(46-53)Online publication date: 20-May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR51878.2021.9483863

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