Incremental theory of diffraction for complex point source illumination

Reconstructing Shape from Shading Images under Point Light Source Illumination

A new photometric method is proposed fo r determining the 3-D shape of t he object from multiple shading Images under the point light source illumination. When the surface is t he perfect diffuser with the uniform reflectance, an algorithm fo r the determination of 3-D shape with positions is developed by using the method of least squares and basing on the principle of the monocular vision and ...

Incremental Updates for Rapid Glossy Global Illumination

We present an integrated global illumination algorithm including non-diffuse light transport which can handle complex scenes and enables rapid incremental updates. We build on a unified algorithm which uses hierarchical radiosity with clustering and particle tracing for diffuse and non-diffuse transport respectively. We present a new algorithm which chooses between reconstructing specular effec...

A Note on Point Source Diffraction by a Wedge

The object of this paper is to give new expressions for the wave field produced when a time harmonic point source is diffracted by a wedge with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions on its faces. The representation of the total field is expressed in terms of quadratures of elementary functions, rather than Bessel functions, which is usual in the literature. An analogous expression is given f...

Importance Caching for Complex Illumination

Realistic rendering requires computing the global illumination in the scene, and Monte Carlo integration is the best-known method for doing that. The key to good performance is to carefully select the costly integration samples, which is usually achieved via importance sampling. Unfortunately, visibility is difficult to factor into the importance distribution, which can greatly increase varianc...

Global Illumination of Point Models