• DocumentCode
    1195510
  • Title

    Efficient light transport using precomputed visibility

  • Author

    Daubert, Katja ; Kautz, Jan ; Seidel, Hans-Peter ; Heidrich, Wolfgang ; Dischler, Jean-Michel

  • Author_Institution
    Max-Planck-Inst. fur Inf., Saarbrucken, Germany
  • Volume
    23
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    28
  • Lastpage
    37
  • Abstract
    We describe a method that precomputes, stores, and reuses visibility information for light transport in general parametric surfaces, triangle meshes without a global parameterization, and participating media.
  • Keywords
    computational geometry; computer graphics; lighting; ray tracing; general parametric surfaces; illumination algorithms; light transport; precomputed visibility; triangle meshes; visibility information reuse; Acceleration; Hardware; Layout; Light scattering; Light sources; Lighting; Optical reflection; Registers; Surface reconstruction; Surface texture;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1716
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCG.2003.1198260
  • Filename
    1198260