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Real-time global illumination for dynamic scenes

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Carsten Dachsbacher,

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SIGGRAPH '09: ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Courses

Article No.: 19, Pages 1 - 217

https://doi.org/10.1145/1667239.1667258

Published: 03 August 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Global illumination is an important factor in creating realistic scenes and provides visual cues for understanding scene geometry. However, global illumination is very costly and only recently has it become viable to render scenes with global-illumination effects at interactive frame rates by exploiting the parallelism and programmability of modern GPUs.

This course provides a concise overview of recent GPU-based global-illumination techniques that support fully dynamic scenes, compares them, and discusses their various strengths and weaknesses. After introducing the necessary foundation (rendering equation, direct vs. indirect illumination, etc.), the course summarizes the three main streams of real-time global illumination techniques: virtual point lights, screen-space techniques, and hierarchical finite elements.

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Jönsson DSundén EYnnerman ARopinski T(2014)A Survey of Volumetric Illumination Techniques for Interactive Volume RenderingComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1225233:1(27-51)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2014
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Karlik ORuzicka MGassenbauer VPellacini FKrivanek J(2014)Toward Evaluating the Usefulness of GlobalIllumination for Novices in Lighting Design TasksIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2013.24820:6(944-954)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2014
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Real-time global illumination for dynamic scenes
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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Jönsson DSundén EYnnerman ARopinski T(2014)A Survey of Volumetric Illumination Techniques for Interactive Volume RenderingComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/cgf.1225233:1(27-51)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2014
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Karlik ORuzicka MGassenbauer VPellacini FKrivanek J(2014)Toward Evaluating the Usefulness of GlobalIllumination for Novices in Lighting Design TasksIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics10.1109/TVCG.2013.24820:6(944-954)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2014
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Reiner TKaplanyan AReinhard MDachsbacher C(2012)Selective Inspection and Interactive Visualization of Light Transport in Virtual ScenesComputer Graphics Forum10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03050.x31:2pt4(711-718)Online publication date: 1-May-2012
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