Practical antialiasing (part II)

CS 348B - Computer Graphics: Image Synthesis Techniques
Spring Quarter, 1998
Marc Levoy
Lecture notes for Thursday, April 16
Handout #14

Table of contents:

• Adaptive sampling as variance reduction
  • Statistical setting for rendering
  • Describing a population
  • Sampling the population
  • A strategy for reducing the sample variance
  • Stratified sampling
  • Choosing stratum sample sizes
• Practical adaptive sampling
  • Algorithm 3: adaptive regular sampling
  • Algorithm 4: adaptive stochastic sampling
  • Image demonstrating adaptive sampling patterns and explanation

Press here for Part I of this lecture.