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Reflection Rays

Reflection Rays is a computational ray generation method in ray tracing that extends primary rays by simulating the physical behavior of light bouncing off specular surfaces, distinguished from other ray types by its role in capturing mirror-like reflections to enhance visual realism in rendered scenes.

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12.2K

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569

Authors

275

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Publications

251

An improved illumination model for shaded display

Turner Whitted · Communications of the ACM · 1980 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Ray techniques in electromagnetics

G. Deschamps · Proceedings of the IEEE · 1972 · 472 citations

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Multiple scattering of EM waves by spheres part I--Multipole expansion and ray-optical solutions

John H. Bruning, Yuen Lo · IRE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation · 1971 · 332 citations

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A radiosity method for non-diffuse environments

David Immel, Michael F. Cohen, Donald P. Greenberg · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1986 · 314 citations

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Beam tracing polygonal objects

Paul S. Heckbert, Pat Hanrahan · 1984 · 313 citations

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Authors

569

  1. LB
    Leopold B. Felsen

    SUNY Polytechnic Institute, United States

    5 publications · 207 citations

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  2. NT
    Naoki Tsukamoto

    National Institute of Technology, Japan

    4 publications · 324 citations

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  3. PS
    P. S. Theocaris

    National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    4 publications · 160 citations

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  4. DL
    David L. Shealy

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

    4 publications · 172 citations

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  5. TW
    Turner Whitted

    Nokia (United States), United States

    4 publications · 2.1K citations

    4

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Institutions

275

  1. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    343 citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. SUNY Polytechnic Institute

    Utica, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    315 citations

  4. National Technical University of Athens

    Athens, Greece

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    179 citations

  5. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    292 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    345 citations

  7. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    296 citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    185 citations

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Venues

  1. Applied Optics

    26 publications · 803 citations

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  3. Computer Graphics Forum

    8 publications · 207 citations

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  4. Journal of the Optical Society of America

    JOSA · 6 publications · 207 citations

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  5. IRE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

    6 publications · 515 citations

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