Guaranteed Occlusion and Visibility in Cluster Hierarchical Radiosity
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چکیده
Visibility determination is the most expensive task in cluster hierarchical radiosity. Guaranteed full occlusion and full visibility can reduce these computations without causing visibility errors. We build a hierarchy of large convex occluders using face clustering. This structure is efficiently exploited to avoid computing visibility between mutually fully occluded scene elements. Used in conjunction with a full visibility culling method, we show improvements on several scenes.
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