• In computer graphics, photon mapping is a two-pass global illumination rendering algorithm developed by Henrik Wann Jensen between 1995 and 2001 that approximately...
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    photon mapping, tracing rays from the light source and the camera separately, and then finding ways to connect these paths (but unlike photon mapping...
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  • Illumination using Photon Maps Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine" (PDF). Rendering Techniques ’96: 21–30. "Photon Mapping - Zack Waters". web...
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    volumetric path tracing, Metropolis light transport, ambient occlusion, photon mapping, signed distance field and image-based lighting are all examples of...
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    such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping and path tracing, are generally slower and higher fidelity than scanline...
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    caustics using photon mapping surface patterns such as wrinkles, bumps, and ripples, for use in procedural textures and bump mapping radiosity support...
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    technique Ray casting, a slower technique often used in ray tracing Photon mapping, a much slower technique capable of very realistic lighting Radiosity...
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  • casts beams from the light source into the environment. Similar to photon mapping, backwards beam tracing may be used to efficiently model lighting effects...
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    two-photon absorption (TPA or 2PA), also called two-photon excitation or non-linear absorption, is the (almost) simultaneous absorption of two photons of...
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  • Danish computer graphics researcher. He is best known for developing the photon mapping technique as the subject of his PhD thesis, but has also done important...
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    goal is photo-realism, techniques such as ray tracing, path tracing, photon mapping or radiosity are employed. This is the basic method employed in digital...
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  • overlays the images. Spectral rendering is often used in ray tracing or photon mapping to more accurately simulate the scene, often for comparison with an...
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    Lightmap (redirect from Light mapping)
    volumes or shadow mapping, as real-time ray-tracing is still too slow to perform on modern hardware in most 3D engines. Photon mapping can be used to calculate...
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    like ambient occlusion, subsurface scattering, Rayleigh scattering, photon mapping, ray-tracing and many others. Experiments into the processing power...
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  • kind to feature real time Global illumination through a method called Photon mapping, the GI system runs entirely through the CPU on one core and was first...
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  • Raytrace Sky Maps and Rigid Body Dynamics. The version, 8.0, added Photon Mapping, Fast soft shadows, area light, Quadratic light drop-off, EXR and 16bit...
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  • Photometry Science of measuring light in terms of human perception. Photon mapping Photorealistic rendering algorithm based on tracing rays from the camera...
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    paths of a light beam, accounting for the refraction and reflection. Photon mapping is one implementation of this. Volumetric caustics can also be achieved...
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    methods has led to many different algorithms including path tracing, photon mapping, and Metropolis light transport, among others. Although the equation...
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    Later, the Cornell box was adapted for evaluating newer methods such as photon mapping, introduced by Henrik Wann Jensen in the 1990s, which improved the simulation...
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    for their work on ambient occlusion rendering. Global illumination Photon mapping Radiosity Ray tracing High-dynamic-range rendering Blender (software)...
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  • Perspective distortion Phong reflection model Phong shading Photogrammetry Photon mapping Physically based rendering Physics engine Picture plane Pixel Pixel...
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    engine that uses global illumination algorithms, including path tracing, photon mapping, irradiance maps and directly computed global illumination. The desktop...
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    model diffuse interreflection when rendering a scene. Radiosity and photon mapping are two commonly used methods. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy can...
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    path needed for accurate reflection. On the other hand, progressive photon mapping (PPM), a biased technique, handles caustics effectively. Although biased...
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  • physical accuracy. Path Tracing Global illumination Monte Carlo Method Photon mapping Radiosity (computer graphics) Ray tracing (graphics) Ray tracing (physics)...
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    anti-aliasing, soft shadows, depth of field, transparent background, photon mapping caustics and subsurface scattering. The Raster renderer provides a few...
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    sophisticated ray-casting algorithm which considers global illumination Photon mapping Radiosity (computer graphics) Path tracing Volume ray casting 2.5D Roth...
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    Gamma ray (redirect from Gamma photon)
    wavelengths less than 10 picometers (1×10−11 m), gamma ray photons have the highest photon energy of any form of electromagnetic radiation. Paul Villard...
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  • tracing Image-based lighting Metropolis light transport Path tracing Photon mapping Radiosity Ray tracing Hidden-surface removal or visual surface determination...
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