Path tracing tends to be very inefficient at rendering surfaces in complex lighting conditions, especially in the presence of caustics from highly specular objects. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the possibility of improving the efficiency by guiding the path tracer with local incoming radiance estimates obtained from an intermediate, photon map based data structure.
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Realistic Image Synthesis Using Photon Mapping - Henrik Wann Jensen, AK Peters, 2001
Advanced Global Illumination - Dutre, Bala, Bekaert, Shirley, AK Peters, 2006