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Global Illumination Techniques for the Simulation of Participating Media

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Rendering Techniques ’97 (EGSR 1997)

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This paper surveys global illumination algorithms for environments including participating media and accounting for multiple scattering. The objective of this survey is the characterization of those methods: Identification of their base techniques, their assumptions, limitations and range of utilization. To this end, the algorithms are grouped into functional categories and each method is briefly reviewed, with a discussion of its complexity and its pros and cons. We finish by discussing some applications as well as remaining areas for investigation.

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  1. GGG/IIiA-UdG, Lluís Santaló s/n, E-17003, Girona, Spain

    Frederic Pérez & Xavier Pueyo

  2. iMAGIS/GRAVIR-INRIA, CNRS/INRIA/INPG/UJF, B.P. 53, F-38041, Grenoble Cedex 9, France

    Frederic Pérez & François X. Sillion

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Julie Dorsey

  2. Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Philipp Slusallek

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Pérez, F., Pueyo, X., Sillion, F.X. (1997). Global Illumination Techniques for the Simulation of Participating Media. In: Dorsey, J., Slusallek, P. (eds) Rendering Techniques ’97. EGSR 1997. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-6858-5_28

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