Particle Tracing Methods in Photorealistic Image Synthesis Rázsó István Márk rezso@inf.bme.hu Department of Control Engineering and Information Technology Technical University of Budapest Budapest, Hungary

Abstract
There are different methods to represent global illumination in image generation algorithms. One solution is to use radiosity algorithms, another one is to use particle tracing. This document gives an overview on different rendering algorithms using particle tracing.

Keywords: Rendering, Particle Tracing, Kernel Estimator, Importance Sampling

Contents:

Introduction
Particle Tracing
Mesh generators
An importance samling technique using the particle data
Our work
References

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), ref.no. F015884, and by the Austrian-Hungarian Action Fund, ref.No.: 29ö4 and 32öu9.