Progressive Photon Mapping

Computer Graphics · Light Transport · 2008 · also: PPM · progressive-photon-mapping.yaml

Keeps camera hit points instead of photons and shrinks each one's search radius as more photon passes arrive, so the estimate converges to the correct answer in bounded memory.

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