The visibility function in direct illumination describes the binary visibility over a light source, e.g., an environment map. Intuitively, the visibility is often strongly correla...
An ideal visibility algorithm should a) quickly reject most of the hidden geometry in a model and b) exploit the spatial and perhaps temporal coherence of the images being generat...
We present a load-balancing technique that exploits the temporal coherence, among successive computation phases, in mesh-like computations to be mapped on a cluster of processors....
Biagio Cosenza, Gennaro Cordasco, Rosario De Chiar...
We present Metropolis Photon Sampling (MPS), a visual importance-driven algorithm for populating photon maps. Photon Mapping and other particle tracing algorithms fail if the phot...
Finite Element methods are well suited to the computation of the light distribution in mostly diffuse scenes, but the resulting mesh is often far from optimal to accurately represe...
Annette Scheel, Marc Stamminger, Hans-Peter Seidel