Architects must consider an entire year's worth of solar positions and climate data to design
buildings with adequate daylight and minimal glare. However, annual simulations are time …

The introduction of general purpose computing on many-core graphics processor systems,
and the general shift in the industry towards parallelism, has created a demand for ease of …

The conventional approach to predicting interior illumination and visual discomfort in
buildings is to run a ray tracing simulation with high accuracy settings, wait while the …

GPU based computing has made significant strides in recent years. Unfortunately, GPU
program optimizations can introduce subtle concurrency errors, and so incisive formal bug …

This paper examines the feasibility of implementing core algorithms from Radiance using a
new type ray tracing engine optimized for highly parallel graphics hardware environments. It …

Recent developments in integrated circuit technology tend toward increased numbers of
cores rather than faster clock speeds, so software must use parallelism to achieve faster run …

We propose a technique to build the irradiance cache for isotropic scattering simultaneously
with Monte Carlo progressive direct volume rendering on a single GPU, which allows us to …

Building designers rely on predictive rendering techniques to design naturally and artificially
lit environments. However, despite decades of work on the correctness of global illumination …

Актуальность работы Проблема глобальной освещенности возникает при решении
широкого круга задач проектирования, оптического моделирования, компьютерной …

В данной статье предлагается эффективный и исключительно простой алгоритм
построения окто-дерева со множественными ссылками на графических процессорах …