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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Morgan McGuire, Williamstown, MA (US);
Cyril Jean-Francois Crassin, Paris, FR;
David Patrick Luebke, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Michael Thomas Mara, Williamstown, MA (US);
Brent L. Oster, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Schuyler Shirley, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Peter-Pike J. Sloan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher Ryan Wyman, Redmond, WA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for computing indirect lighting in a cloud network. In operation, one or more scenes for rendering are identified. Further, indirect lighting associated with the one or more scenes is identified. Additionally, computation associated with the indirect lighting is performed in a cloud network utilizing at least one of a voxel-based algorithm, a photon-based algorithm, or an irradiance-map-based algorithm.