In computer graphics, photon mapping is a two-pass global illumination rendering algorithm developed by Henrik Wann Jensen between 1995 and 2001 that approximately...

Illumination using Photon Maps Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine" (PDF). Rendering Techniques ’96: 21–30. "Photon Mapping - Zack Waters". web...

volumetric path tracing, Metropolis light transport, ambient occlusion, photon mapping, signed distance field and image-based lighting are all examples of...

such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping and path tracing, are generally slower and higher fidelity than scanline...

caustics using photon mapping surface patterns such as wrinkles, bumps, and ripples, for use in procedural textures and bump mapping radiosity support...

technique Ray casting, a slower technique often used in ray tracing Photon mapping, a much slower technique capable of very realistic lighting Radiosity...

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...

technique called photon mapping or photon tracing uses forward ray tracing (also called particle tracing), tracing paths of photons from a light source...

methods has led to many different algorithms including path tracing, photon mapping, and Metropolis light transport, among others. Although the equation...

model diffuse interreflection when rendering a scene. Radiosity and photon mapping are two commonly used methods. Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy can...

engine that uses global illumination algorithms, including path tracing, photon mapping, irradiance maps and directly computed global illumination. The desktop...

environment were two white boxes. Another common version first used to test photon mapping includes two spheres: one with a perfect mirror surface and one made...

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...

sophisticated rendering techniques have been developed based on ray tracing or photon mapping. Lens flare was typically avoided by Hollywood cinematographers, but...

for their work on ambient occlusion rendering. Global illumination Photon mapping Radiosity Ray tracing High-dynamic-range rendering Miller, Gavin (1994)...

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...

two-photon absorption (TPA or 2PA), also called two-photon excitation or non-linear absorption, is the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical...

paths of a light beam, accounting for the refraction and reflection. Photon mapping is one implementation of this. Volumetric caustics can also be achieved...

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...

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...

like ambient occlusion, subsurface scattering, Rayleigh scattering, photon mapping, and many others. Experiments into the processing power required to...

The term quantum efficiency (QE) may apply to incident photon to converted electron (IPCE) ratio of a photosensitive device, or it may refer to the TMR...

casts beams from the light source into the environment. Similar to photon mapping, backwards beam tracing may be used to efficiently model lighting effects...

interact with light). Path Tracing Global illumination Monte Carlo Method Photon mapping Radiosity (computer graphics) Ray tracing (graphics) Ray tracing (physics)...

path needed for accurate reflection. On the other hand, progressive photon mapping (PPM), a biased technique, handles caustics effectively. Although biased...

anti-aliasing, soft shadows, depth of field, transparent background, photon mapping caustics and subsurface scattering. The Raster renderer provides a few...

Guibas) Metropolis light transport (Kelemen, Kalos et al.) Photon mapping (Jensen) (mesh maps, photon maps, final gathering, irradiance caching, caustics) Diffuse...

sophisticated ray-casting algorithm which considers global illumination Photon mapping Radiosity (computer graphics) Path tracing Volume ray casting 2.5D Roth...

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...

tracing Image-based lighting Metropolis light transport Path tracing Photon mapping Radiosity Ray tracing Hidden-surface removal or Visual surface determination...