Real-time diffuse global illumination using radiance hints

GPU-based interactive global illumination techniques are receiving an increasing interest from both the research and the industrial community as real-time graphics applications strive for visually rich and realistic dynamic three-dimensional environments. This paper presents a fast new diffuse global illumination method that generates a sparse set of low-cost radiance field evaluation points (radiance hints) and computes an arbitrary number of diffuse inter-reflections within a given volume. The proposed approximate technique combines ideas from exiting grid-based radiance caching techniques with reflective shadow maps as well as a stochastic scheme for visibility calculations, in order to achieve high frame rates for multiple light bounces.

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