Colloquy Cycle on Tuesday, September 2, 1997 - 11:00

We present two Global Monte Carlo based algorithms to perform accurate illumination simulation of motion blur effects in radiosity scenes. Our first results will be presented

In this talk we will deal with two topics in shooting random walk radiosity. The first is to decide, which of the different estimators we have available is the best. The second question is that, when given different sources, what the optimal probability for a path to begin at a source is.

We present some results on the analysis of variance of Monte Carlo algorithms, and show how they can be applied to improve two-step algorithms for global illumination.