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This is a collection of briefly commented links concerning Radiosity. I hope it's useful for someone.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Books
Bibliographies
Papers
Software
Images
Miscellaneous
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Introduction
What is Computer Graphics?
Brief introduction to "realistic image synthesis" by the Program of Computer Graphics at Cornell University.
Nice introduction to the Radiosity method.
The text was written by Allen Martin for a course at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
This page describes the great advantage of the Radiosity method over other methods (concerning the physical accuracy, not speed ;-).
This example appears also in Cohen's Book.Parallel & Hierarchical Radiosity
Another nice introduction briefly treating Parallel and Hierarchical Radiosity. There is also a nice Image Gallery.
This text was written by Simon Gibson.
Michael F. Cohen - Radiosity and Realistic Image SynthesisF.X. Sillion , C.Puech - Radiosity and Global Illumination
Good and comprehensive introductions to the state of the art in Radiosity methods.Ian Ashdown - Radiosity: A Programmer's Perspective
Good practical introduction to the Radiosity method. Including source code in C++ for the described Radiosity system.
Radiosity Bibliography
Ian Ashdowns bibliography containing a great number of
"...references to original papers, articles, and books on radiosity and related global illumination algorithms.
It also includes a limited number of references to such eclectic topics as constrained Delaunay triangulation, winged-edge data structures, finite element mathematics, and more."Rosenfeld Bibliography, KWIC-Index - Radiosity
Rosenfeld Bibliography, Lightness, radiosity
A Parallel Radiosity System for Large Data SetsDescription of a Parallel Radiosity system using the Progressive Refinement method.Parallel Radiosity Computation
Another paper about Parallel Progressive Refinement -- but this one is also available in Czech!An Efficient Progressive Refinement Strategy for Hierarchical Radiosity
Papers about the computational complexity and the parallelisation of the Hierarchical Radiosity algorithm.A Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm
"This paper presents a rapid hierarchical radiosity algorithm for illuminating scenes containing large polygonal patches."A Rapid Hierarchical Radiosity Algorithm for Unoccluded Environments
"This paper presents a linear-time radiosity algorithm for scenes containing large mutually unoccluded polygonal patches."Dynamic Discontinuities for Radiosity
Nice description of the Discontinuity Meshing method.
Brief introduction to problems arising in dynamically changing environments (rest of paper available on request)Geometric Simplification for Indirect Illumination Calculations
This paper introduces a method for accelerating global illumination by clustering small objects."... we discuss a new set of linear time hierarchical algorithms based on wavelets such as the multiwavelet family and a flatlet basis which we introduce."Integration Methods for Galerkin Radiosity Couplings
"An adaptive method for choosing Gauss quadrature rules is presented, and our performance analysis of the new adaptive algorithm shows that it can be up to 10 times faster than previous methods."Numerical Integration for Radiosity in the Presence of Singularities
"We introduce a new technique of constructing quadrature rules specifically adapted to the singularity. These rules are based on exact constant-constant transport..."Textures and Radiosity: Controlling Emission and Reflection with Texture
"In this paper we discuss the efficient and accurate incorporation of texture maps into a hierarchical Galerkin radiosity algorithm."Partitioning and Ordering Large Radiosity Computations
"We describe a system that computes radiosity solutions for polygonal environments much larger than can be stored in main memory. The solution is stored in and retrieved from a database as the computation proceeds."Radiosity Rendering With Specular Shading
Gary Thomas Shea's Thesis describing an extension to the algorithm of Wallace, et al.This is a list of papers containing miscellaneous graphics stuff. A lot of them are treating Radiosity themes. Unfortunately they aren't available online.F.X. Sillion's Recent Publications
F.X. Sillion's list of papers, including abstracts and postscript-sources.
Lightscape
Commercial Radiosity system for SGI and Windows NT platforms. With a collection of high quality architectural images.
Commercial rendering library for many platforms. With a huge collection of images (and nicely designed web-pages)."MOONLITE is an application of photorealistic indoor lighting projects in AutoCAD enviroment with three dimensional graphics. MOONLITE is used to simulate real objects and the behaviour of the light sources."Commercial Radiosity system for SGI and Windows NT platforms. With some nice sample images (there are also geometrical models available)."The SCOPE system is set of applications which work together to deliver interactive 3D graphics. The aim of the research is to make the graphics as realistic as possible, while maintaining interactive frame rates and giving useful feedback to the user."
With a short introduction to the Radiosity techniques and methods and a brief description of Discontinuity Meshing."The Vision project is an effort to develop an general architecture for physically-based image synthesis..." by the Computer Graphics Group at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-NürnbergWaoh ! Wooo ! And all sorts of things like this...
Gilles Rougeron introduces his freeware Two Pass Radiosity system called Raysmith. It is available at ...Index of /graphics/graphics/radiosity/
Directory of the Washington University FTP Archive.
Program of Computer Graphics - An Image SamplerA collection of some of the nicest* and most famous* Radiosity images.
* ... (of course) in my opinion.
Arbeitsbereich Radiosity am WSI-GRISDescription of a Radiosity project at the University of Thuebingen. Only available through German.This is a collection of links to some graphics-related topics. It includes the topic Radiosity but this page is (still) under construction. Maybe something intresting will apear in the near future.ROVER - Radiosity for Virtual Reality Systems
Tralvex Yeap's MSc Thesis, Gallery etc.
Nice collection of papers and people, groups, etc.
[Introduction] [Books] [Bibliographies] [Papers] [Software] [Images] [Misc]
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