Importance Driven Path Tracing using the Photon Map

This paper presents a new importance sampling strategy for Monte Carlo ray tracing in which a rough estimate of the irradiance based on the photon map is combined with the local reflection model to construct more efficient probability density functions that can be used in an importance sampling scheme.

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