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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2007
Applicants:
Alexander Keller, Ulm, DE;
Carsten Waechter, Ulm, DE;
Inventors:
Alexander Keller, Ulm, DE;
Carsten Waechter, Ulm, DE;
Assignee:
Mental Images GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatus and computer software/computer code products operable to enable computer graphics systems to simulate Markov chains (and thus trajectories of photons and the like) comprise simulating, and/or means for simulating, Markov chains using a quasi-Monte Carlo methodology, wherein the simulating of Markov chains comprises sorting states, and wherein the sorting comprises proximity sorting.