E. Catalano
R. Yasui-Schöffel
ABSTRACT
The sheer size of texture data and the complexity of custom shaders in production rendering were the two major hurdles in the way of GPU acceleration. Requiring only tiny modifications of an existing production renderer, we are able to accelerate the computation of global illumination by more than an order of magnitude.
Supplemental Material
- Debattista, K., Santos, L., and Chalmers, A. 2006. Accelerating the irradiance cache through parallel component-based rendering. In Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, The Eurographics Association, A. Heirich, B. Raffin, and L. Santos, Eds. Google Scholar
Digital Library
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- Křivánek, J., and Gautron, P. 2009. Practical Global Illumination with Irradiance Caching. Synthesis lectures in computer graphics and animation. Morgan & Claypool. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Parker, S., Bigler, J., Dietrich, A., Friedrich, H., Hoberock, J., Luebke, D., McAllister, D., McGuire, M., Morley, K., Robison, A., and Stich, M. 2010. OptiX: A general purpose ray tracing engine. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 TOG 29, 4, Article No. 66. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- GI next: global illumination for production rendering on GPUs
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