Russian Roulette

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Terminate a path with some probability and divide the survivors by the survival probability. Bounds path length without the bias that a hard depth cutoff introduces.

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G path-tracing Path Tracing russian-roulette Russian Roulette russian-roulette->path-tracing cutting paths at a fixed depth loses energy

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