Combining Rasterization and Ray Tracing Techniques to Approximate Global Illumination in Real-Time
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This paper introduces a 3D rendering engine that combines rasterization and ray tracing techniques to approximate global illumination in real-time. Namely, direct and indirect diffuse illumination are generated with state of the art illumination techniques processed on the GPU, including a new sky lighting technique that we propose to simulate realistic ambient lighting for outdoor environments. The illumination is then complemented with realistic refl ections and refractions generated by an hybrid real -time ray-tracer that performs the ray tracing step on the CPU and the lighting on the GPU.
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