A 5D Tree to Reduce the Variance of Monte Carlo Ray Tracing

In this paper we present a 5D tree structure to cache illumination information gained during Monte Carlo ray tracing. The structure is elegant and simple to use. It is adaptive and makes abstraction of the complexity of the input scene automatically.

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