Thoroughly revised, this third edition focuses on modern techniques used to generate
synthetic three-dimensional images in a fraction of a second. With the advent of …

The wide adoption of path‐tracing algorithms in high‐end realistic rendering has stimulated
many diverse research initiatives. In this paper we present a coherent survey of methods that …

Recent years have seen increasing attention and significant progress in many‐light
rendering, a class of methods for efficient computation of global illumination. The many‐light …

Volume rendering under complex, dynamic lighting is challenging, especially if targeting
real-time. To address this challenge, we extend a recent direct illumination sampling …

Adaptive transparency is a new solution to order-independent transparency that closely
approximates the ground-truth results obtained with A-buffer compositing but, like a Z-buffer …

We introduce multi-layer alpha blending, a novel solution to real-time order-independent
transparency that operates in a single rendering pass and in bounded memory. The main …

In the past few years, advances in graphics hardware have fuelled an explosion of research
and development in the field of interactive and real‐time rendering in screen space …

BACKGROUND This relates generally to graphics processing and particu larly to shadowing
dynamic Volumetric media. Dynamic volumetric media are objects that have variable …

This paper provides an overview of the issues and techniques involved in shadow
generation in mixed reality environments. Shadow generation techniques in virtual …

We present a novel and efficient method to compute volumetric soft shadows for interactive
direct volume visualization to improve the perception of spatial depth. By direct control of the …