Rendering Techniques ’96

The Light Volume: An Aid to Rendering Complex Environments.- Light-Driven Global Illumination with a Wavelet Representation of Light Transport.- Global Illumination using Photon Maps.- Geometry Caching for Ray-Tracing Displacement Maps.- Cost Prediction in Ray Tracing.- Towards an Open Rendering Kernel for Image Synthesis.- Fast Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces.- High-Fidelity Radiosity Rendering at Interactive Rates.- Non-symmetric Scattering in Light Transport Algorithms.- Rendering Participating Media with Bidirectional Path Tracing.- Quasi-Monte Carlo Radiosity.- Importance-Driven Stochastic Ray Radiosity.- Efficiently Representing the Radiosity Kernel through Learning.- Accurate Error Bounds for Multi-Resolution Visibility.- Proximity Radiosity: Exploiting Coherence to Accelerate Form Factor Computations.- Error Control for Radiosity.- Hierarchical Rendering of Trees from Precomputed Multi-Layer Z-Buffers.- A Temporal Image-Based Approach to Motion Reconstruction for Globally Illuminated Animated Environments.- The Multi-Frame Lighting Method: A Monte Carlo Based Solution for Radiosity in Dynamic Environments.- Wavelet Based Texture Resampling.- Modeling Textiles as Three Dimensional Textures.- Synthesizing Verdant Landscapes using Volumetric Textures.- Ray Tracing in Non-Constant Media.- Hierarchical Back-Face Computation.- The 3D Visibility Complex: A New Approach to the Problems of Accurate Visibility.- Conservative Radiance Interpolants for Ray Tracing.- Accurate Visibility and Meshing Calculations for Hierarchical Radiosity.- Color Section.