Monte Carlo Ray Tracing
James R. Arvo, Philip Dutré, Alexander Keller, Art B. Owen, Matt Pharr, Peter Shirley, Henrik Wann Jenssen · 2003
This full day course will provide a detailed overview of state of the art in Monte Carlo ray tracing. Recent advances in algorithms and available compute power have made Monte Carlo ray tracing based methods widely used for simulating global illumination. This course will review the fundamentals of Monte Carlo methods, and provide a detailed description of the theory behind the latest techniques and algorithms used in realistic image synthesis. This includes path tracing, bidirectional path tracing, Metropolis light transport, irradiance caching and photon mapping.