Real-time global illumination using precomputed light field probes

@article{McGuire2017RealtimeGI,
  title={Real-time global illumination using precomputed light field probes},
  author={Morgan McGuire and Michael Mara and Derek Nowrouzezahrai and David P. Luebke},
  journal={Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games},
  year={2017}
}
  • M. McGuire, Michael Mara, D. Luebke
  • Published 25 February 2017
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games
We introduce a new data structure and algorithms that employ it to compute real-time global illumination from static environments. [] Key Method We apply ideas from screen-space and voxel cone tracing techniques to this data structure to efficiently sample radiance on world space rays, with correct visibility information, directly within pixel and compute shaders.
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