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
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;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MCG.2003.1198260
