The interaction of light and matter in the world surrounding us is of striking complexity and
beauty. Since the very beginning of computer graphics, adequate modelling of these …

View-dependent effects such as reflections pose a substantial challenge for image-based
and neural rendering algorithms. Above all, curved reflectors are particularly hard, as they …

Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

Displacement map** is a powerful mechanism for adding fine to medium geometric
details over a 3D surface using a 2D map encoding them. While GPU rasterization supports …

High-performance ray tracing of triangle meshes equipped with displacement maps is a
challenging task. Existing methods either rely on pre-tessellation, taking full advantage of …

Reproducing physically-based global illumination (GI) effects has been a long-standing
demand for many real-time graphical applications. In pursuit of this goal, many recent …

The most important component of photorealism in Computer Graphics is given by a
physically correct approximation of the light transport. Besides the direct illumination from …

We present a photon map** technique capable of computing high quality global
illumination at interactive frame rates. By extending the concept of photon differentials to …

Ray tracing is a dominant method for generating a wide variety of global illumination effects,
such as reflections/refractions, shadows, etc. In this paper, we propose an efficient technique …

Recent rendering advances dramatically reduce the cost of global illumination. But even
with hardware acceleration, complex light paths with multiple glossy interactions are still …