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Efficient parallel global illumination using density estimation

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pages: 47 - 54

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-774-1

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David Zareski	Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
Bretton Wade	Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
Philip Hubbard	Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University
Peter Shirley	Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University

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IEEE-CS : Computer Society
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	Bruce Walter , Philip M. Hubbard , Peter Shirley , Donald P. Greenberg, Global illumination using local linear density estimation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.16 n.3, p.217-259, July 1997
	Tim Purcell, Parallel ray tracing on a chip, Practical parallel rendering, A. K. Peters, Ltd., Natick, MA, 2002