Solar design can take many different forms across disciplines with different methodologies
and goals, ranging from acquiring architectural visual effects to assessing illumination for …

The behavior of daylight inside built settings, though complex, is well understood; and over
past years, designers and researchers investigated different tools and methodologies to …

Efficiently rendering direct lighting from millions of dynamic light sources using Monte Carlo
integration remains a challenging problem, even for off-line rendering systems. We …

This paper introduces a simple and robust progressive global illumination algorithm based
on photon mapping. Progressive photon mapping is a multi-pass algorithm where the first …

We present a robust, unbiased technique for intelligent light‐path construction in path‐
tracing algorithms. Inspired by existing path‐guiding algorithms, our method learns an …

This paper presents a simple extension of progressive photon mapping for simulating global
illumination with effects such as depth-of-field, motion blur, and glossy reflections …

Monte Carlo techniques for light transport simulation rely on importance sampling when
constructing light transport paths. Previous work has shown that suitable sampling …

We introduce vertex block descent, a block coordinate descent solution for the variational
form of implicit Euler through vertex-level Gauss-Seidel iterations. It operates with local …

It is a long-standing problem in unbiased Monte Carlo methods for rendering that certain
difficult types of light transport paths, particularly those involving viewing and illumination …

Multidimensional lightcuts is a new scalable method for efficiently rendering rich visual
effects such as motion blur, participating media, depth of field, and spatial anti-aliasing in …