https://e-sygoing.link Latest links in the Research and Papers category en-us Sun, 24 May 2026 16:08:59 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663895-radiosity-an-illuminating-perspective Presents a summary of the state of radiosity research 1992 by S.M Drucker. In PDF format. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:30:46 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663895 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663871-improved-noise-by-ken-perlin-reference-implementation An implementation in java of Perlin's 2002 SIGGRAPH paper (available in PDF format) describing a improved noise generating function. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:50:36 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663871 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663868-efficient-image-based-methods-for-rendering-soft-shadows Presents two efficient image-based approaches for computation and display of high-quality soft shadows from area light sources: Layered attenuation maps and coherence-based raytracing. Authors: Maneesh Agrawala, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Alan Heirich and Laurent Moll. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:07:16 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663868 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663883-all-frequency-shadows Ren Ng, Ravi Ramamoorthi and Pat Hanrahan presents a method, based on pre-computed light transport, for real-time rendering of objects under all-frequency, time-varying illumination represented as a high-resolution environment map. This gives good shadows. Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:26:29 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663883 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663892-philip-dutrs-publications Mostly relating to global illumination algorithms and monte carlo light tracing. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 10:48:05 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663892 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663876-radiance-technical-papers Various papers describing the free radiance highly accurate ray-tracing software system for UNIX computers. Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:40:18 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663876 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663884-animation-and-rendering-of-complex-water-surfaces Douglas Enright, Steve Marschner and Ronald Fedkiw describes a method designed to produce visually plausible water effects, for example the pouring of water into a glass and the breaking of an ocean wave. Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:40:32 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663884 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663885-bidirectional-estimators-for-light-transport Eric Veach and Leonidas J. Guibas study techniques for reducing the sampling noise inherent in pure Monte Carlo approaches to global illumination. Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:52:12 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663885 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663881-ray-tracing-on-programmable-graphics-hardware Timothy J. Purcell, Ian Buck, William R. Mark, and Pat Hanrahan evaluate trends in programmability of the graphics pipeline and explain how ray tracing can be mapped to graphics hardware. Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:39:50 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663881 https://e-sygoing.link/link/5663872-eliminating-popping-artifacts-in-sheet-buffer-based-splattin Splatting is a fast volume rendering algorithm which achieves its speed by projecting voxels in the form of pre-integrated interpolation kernels, or splats. By Klaus Mueller and Roger Crawfis. Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:51 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/5663872