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Efficient multi-bounce lightmap creation using GPU forward mapping

Schärfig, Randolf ; Hormann, Kai (Dir.) ; Stamminger, Marc (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016INFO008.

Computer graphics can nowadays produce images in realtime that are hard to distinguish from photos of a real scene. One of the most important aspects to achieve this is the interaction of light with materials in the virtual scene. The lighting computation can be separated in two different parts. The first part is concerned with the direct illumination that is applied to all surfaces lit by a...