“Importance sampling of area lights in participating media” by Kulla and Fajardo
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Title:
- Importance sampling of area lights in participating media
Session/Category Title: Volume and rendering
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Abstract:
We focus on the problem of single scattering in homogeneous volumes and develop a new importance sampling technique that avoids the singularity near point light sources. We then generalize our method to area lights of arbitrary shapes.
References:
1. Veach, E., and Guibas, L. J. 1995. Optimally combining sampling techniques for monte carlo rendering. In Proceedings of the 22nd annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, ACM, New York, NY, USA, SIGGRAPH ’95, 419–428.
2. Yue, Y., Iwasaki, K., Chen, B.-Y., Dobashi, Y., and Nishita, T. 2010. Unbiased, adaptive stochastic sampling for rendering inhomogeneous participating media. ACM Trans. Graph. 29 (December), 177:1–177:8.
