Lighting in games: past, present and future

Global lighting effects produced by diffuse interreflections are typically simulated using global illumination methods such as radiosity or ray tracing. Although diffuse interreflections are crucial to produce realistic images, radiosity like methods ...

We present an algorithm for interactive hair rendering with both single and multiple scattering effects under complex environment lighting. The outgoing radiance due to single scattering is determined by the integral of the product of the environment ...

This paper presents a three phase pipeline for real-time rendering that provides fast dynamic light calculations while enabling greater material flexibility than deferred shading. This method, called inferred lighting, allows lighting calculations to ...