Real-time Gpu Photon Mapping
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Photon mapping, an algorithm developed by Henrik Wann Jensen [1], is a more realistic method of rendering a scene in computer graphics compared to ray and path tracing. Unlike ray tracing, photon mapping first emits lots of photons from light sources in a scene and then uses the photon map to calculate the radiance of each pixel in the rendered scene. Previous work in the area include a GPU photon mapper written by Stanford Graphics [1], but there do not exist any real-time renderers yet. For this project, a real-time GPU photon mapper using Nvidia CUDA will be implemented.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012