Solving Radiance Transport as a Differential Equation

Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Chris Gonterman
Department of Computer Science Tech Report CSRG-588 - University of Toronto (2008)

Abstract

We introduce an alternative to Monte-Carlo techniques for solving radiance transport problems for participating media. We use a reformulation of the volume rendering equation from its standard integro-differential form to a purely differential form. We then leverage the large body of work in numerical methods for solving differential equations by framing and analyzing the problem as a differential equation. To our knowledge, this is the first application of such techniques in the area of photo-realistic rendering of volumes based on ray optics.

BIBTEX

@techreport{ NG08tr,
author = “Derek Nowrouzezahrai and Chris Gonterman”,
title = “Solving Radiance Transport as a Differential Equation”,
number = “CSRG-588”,
institution = “Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto”,
address = “Toronto, Canada”,
month = dec,
year = “2008”,
}
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