From the literature, it is known that backward polygon beam tracing and other light volume methods are well suited to gather path coherency from specular scattering surfaces. This is of course useful for modelling and efficiently simulating caustics (LS+DE paths). This paper generalises backward polygon beam tracing to also model glossy scattering surfaces. To this end the details of a backward polygon beam tracing model and implementation of source-to-glossy-to-diffuse light transport (LG+DE) paths are researched
Reference:
Duvenhage, B, Bouatouch, K and Kourie, D. 2010. Exploring the use of glossy light volumes for interactive global illumination. 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa, Franschhoek, South Africa, 21-23 June 2010, pp 10
Duvenhage, B., Bouatouch, K., & Kourie, D. (2010). Exploring the use of glossy light volumes for interactive global illumination. Association for Computing Machinery. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4138
Duvenhage, B, K Bouatouch, and D Kourie. "Exploring the use of glossy light volumes for interactive global illumination." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4138
Duvenhage B, Bouatouch K, Kourie D, Exploring the use of glossy light volumes for interactive global illumination; Association for Computing Machinery; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4138 .
7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa, Franschhoek, South Africa, 21-23 June 2010
