Global illumination (part III)

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1998
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Thursday, May 21
Handout #32

Table of contents:

• Computing form factors
  • Visibility
  • Analytic solutions
  • Numerical solutions
• Accelerated radiosity methods
  • Hierarchical radiosity
• Radiosity versus distribution ray tracing
• Current research topics
  • Combined methods
  • Explicitly representing directional radiance
  • Importance-driven radiosity
  • Discontinuity meshing

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