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 …

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 …

The amount of captured 3D data is continuously increasing, with the democratization of
consumer depth cameras, the development of modern multi‐view stereo capture setups and …

Physically plausible illumination at real-time framerates is often achieved using
approximations. One popular example is ambient occlusion (AO), for which very simple and …

We introduce a visually pleasant ambient occlusion approximation running on real-time
graphics hardware. Our method is a multi-pass algorithm that separates the ambient …

Virtual reality (VR) is a scientific method and technology created during the exploration of
the nature by human beings to understand, simulate, and better adapt and use the nature …

We describe a technique for real-time rendering of dynamic, spatially-varying BRDFs in
static scenes with all-frequency shadows from environmental and point lights. The 6D …

Shadows are essential for realistic image compositing from 2D image cutouts. Physics-
based shadow rendering methods require 3D geometries, which are not always available …

Recent approaches to global illumination for dynamic scenes achieve interactive frame rates
by using coarse approximations to geometry, lighting, or both, which limits scene complexity …

Shadow computation in dynamic scenes under complex illumination is a challenging
problem. Methods based on precomputation provide accurate, real-time solutions, but are …