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SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
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Metropolis light transport
We present a new Monte Carlo method for solving the light transport problem, inspired by the Metropolis sampling method in computational physics. To render an image, we generate a...
Eric Veach, Leonidas J. Guibas
STOC
1997
ACM
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An Interruptible Algorithm for Perfect Sampling via Markov Chains
For a large class of examples arising in statistical physics known as attractive spin systems (e.g., the Ising model), one seeks to sample from a probability distribution π on an...
James Allen Fill
ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Shasta: A Low Overhead, Software-Only Approach for Supporting Fine-Grain Shared Memory
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
SIGGRAPH
1993
ACM
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Global visibility algorithms for illumination computations
The most expensive geometric operation in image synthesis is visibility determination. Classically this is solved with hidden surface removal algorithms that render only the parts...
Seth J. Teller, Pat Hanrahan
AI50
2006
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The iCub  Cognitive Humanoid Robot: An Open-System Research Platform for Enactive Cognition
Abstract. This paper describes a multi-disciplinary initiative to promote collaborative research in enactive artificial cognitive systems by developing the iCub : a open-systems 53...
Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, David Vernon