Solar design can take many different forms across disciplines with different methodologies
and goals, ranging from acquiring architectural visual effects to assessing illumination for …

Since the first edition of this book in 2007, there has been a fast evolution in Virtual Reality.
Palmer Luckey designed a prototype for what would become the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality …

This book provides a fundamental understanding of global illumination algorithms. It
discusses a broad class of algorithms for realistic image synthesis and introduces a …

Visibility algorithms for walkthrough and related applications have grown into a significant
area, spurred by the growth in the complexity of models and the need for highly interactive …

The ray tracing algorithm is well-known for its ability to generate high-quality images and its
flexibility to support advanced rendering and lighting effects. Interactive ray tracing has been …

We describe an extension to photon map** that recasts the most expensive steps of the
algorithm--the initial and final photon bounces--as image-space operations amenable to …

Research on realtime ray tracing has recently made tremendous advances. Algorithmic
improvements together with optimized software implementations already allow for interactive …

US PATENT DOCUMENTS 4,625,289 A 11, 1986 Rockwood 5,313,568 A 5, 1994 Wallace
5,933,146 A 8/1999 Wrigley 5,973,699 A 10, 1999 Kent 5.990, 896 A 11/1999 Barrus …

Ray tracing scenes is accomplished using a plurality of inter section testing resources
coupled with a plurality of shading resources, communicative in the aggregate through …

Aspects comprise Systems implementing ray tracing func tionality according to example
architectures. In one example, rays are collected into collections against elements of an …