Global illumination (part I)

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1996
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Thursday, May 16
Handout #26

Table of contents:

• Shadow algorithms
  • Shadowing in Kajiya's Rendering Equation
  • Taxonomy according to type of light source
  • Taxonomy according to shadow representation
  • Algorithm 1: polygon clipping
  • Algorithm 2: shadow maps
  • Algorithm 3: discontinuity meshing
  • Algorithm 4: distribution ray tracing
  • Why not extend shadow algorithms to more bounces?

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