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...

photon mapping, tracing rays from the light source and the camera separately, and then finding ways to connect these paths (but unlike photon mapping...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

like ambient occlusion, subsurface scattering, Rayleigh scattering, photon mapping, ray-tracing and many others. Experiments into the processing power...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Photometry Science of measuring light in terms of human perception. Photon mapping Photorealistic rendering algorithm based on tracing rays from the camera...