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The Light Volume: an aid to rendering complex environments

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Rendering Techniques ’96 (EGSR 1996)

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The appearance of an object depends on both its shape and how it interacts with light. Alter either of these and its appearance will change. Neglect either of these and realism will be compromised. Computer graphics has generated images ranging from nightmarish worlds of plastic, steel, and glass to gently-lit, perfect interiors that have obviously never been inhabited. The reassuring realism lacking in these extremes requires the simulation of both complex geometry and complex light transport.

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  1. Indiana University, USA

    Ken Chiu, Kurt Zimmerman & Peter Shirley

  2. Cornell University, USA

    Peter Shirley

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  1. Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, University of Girona, Spain

    Xavier Pueyo

  2. Department of Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

    Peter Schröder

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Chiu, K., Zimmerman, K., Shirley, P. (1996). The Light Volume: an aid to rendering complex environments. In: Pueyo, X., Schröder, P. (eds) Rendering Techniques ’96. EGSR 1996. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7484-5_1

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