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Eurographics Workshop on Rendering Techniques

EGSR 1995: Rendering Techniques ’95 pp 219–230Cite as

Global Illumination via Density-Estimation

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This paper presents a new method for the production of view-independent global illumi-nation solutions of complex static environments. A key innovation of this new approach is its decomposition of the problem into a loosely coupled sequence of simple modules. This approach decouples the global energy transport computation from the construction of the displayable shaded representation of the environment. This decoupling eliminates many constraints of previous global illumination approaches, yielding accurate solutions for environments with non-diffuse surfaces and high geometric complexity.

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  1. Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Peter Shirley, Bretton Wade, Philip M. Hubbard, David Zareski, Bruce Walter & Donald P. Greenberg

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  1. Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    Patrick M. Hanrahan

  2. Institut für Computergraphik, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Österreich

    Werner Purgathofer

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Shirley, P., Wade, B., Hubbard, P.M., Zareski, D., Walter, B., Greenberg, D.P. (1995). Global Illumination via Density-Estimation. In: Hanrahan, P.M., Purgathofer, W. (eds) Rendering Techniques ’95. EGSR 1995. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9430-0_21

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