Global illumination
9 methods in the atlas attack this one problem. They are rivals: each wins something the others do not.
Phrasings that mean this problem
Global illuminationPhotorealistic renderingPrimary-ray renderingCaustics and global illuminationDiffuse global illumination
graphics-rendering
- Ray castingstandalonecanongraphics-rendering
- Recursive ray tracingWhitted reflection-refractioncanongraphics-rendering
- Path tracingMonte Carlo light samplingcanongraphics-rendering
- Bidirectional path tracingstandalonespecialistgraphics-rendering
- Metropolis light transportPath-space mutationsspecialistgraphics-rendering
- Photon mappingPhoton k-nearest gatherstandardgraphics-rendering
- Irradiance cachingstandalonespecialistgraphics-rendering
- RadiosityForm-factor energy exchangestandardgraphics-rendering
- Progressive radiosityShooting largest-energy patchspecialistgraphics-rendering