“Practical Caustics Rendering with Adaptive Photon Guiding” by Estevez and Kulla
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Entry Number: 17
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- Practical Caustics Rendering with Adaptive Photon Guiding
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We present a method for integrating surface and volume caustics in a production path tracer. We combine progressive photon mapping with photon guiding in an on-demand framework that avoids the overhead of general purpose bidirectional algorithms. We turn bias into noise during rendering to improve adaptive image refinement and denoising.
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