Interactive VPL-based global illumination on the GPU using fuzzy clustering

Bidirectional Clustering for Scalable VPL-based Global Illumination

GPU-Based Global Illumination Using Lightcuts

Zhang, Tong. M.S., Purdue University, May 2011. GPU-Based Global Illumination using Lightcuts. Major Professor: James Mohler. Global Illumination aims to generate high quality images. But due to its high requirements, it is usually quite slow. Research documented in this thesis was intended to offer a hardware and software combined acceleration solution to global illumination. The GPU (using CU...

Instant Global Illumination on the GPU using OptiX

OptiX, a programmable ray tracing engine, has been recently made available by NVidia, relieving rendering researchers from the idiosyncrasies of efficient ray tracing programming and allowing them to concentrate on higher level algorithms, such as interactive global illumination. This paper evaluates the performance of the Instant Global Illumination algorithm on OptiX as well as the impact of ...

GPUGI: Global Illumination Effects on the GPU

In this tutorial we explain how global illumination rendering methods can be implemented on Shader Model 3.0 GPUs. These algorithms do not follow the conventional local illumination model of DirectX/OpenGL pipelines, but require global geometric or illumination information when shading a point. In addition to the theory and state of the art of these approaches, we go into the details of a few a...

Real-Time Global Illumination on GPU

We present a system for computing plausible global illumination solution for dynamic environments in real time on programmable graphics processors (GPUs). We designed a progressive global illumination algorithm to simulate multiple bounces of light on the surfaces of synthetic scenes. The entire algorithm runs on ATI’s Radeon 9800 using vertex and fragment shaders, and computes global illuminat...