Some links of Point or Surfel based global illumination

• "Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting"
  • http://http.download.nvidia.com/developer/GPU_Gems_2/GPU_Gems2_ch14.pdf

• "Point-based Global Illumination for Film Production" (Christensen) SIGGRAPH 2010
  • slides : http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/gicourse2010/giai2010-03-per_christensen-slides.pdf
  • paper : http://graphics.pixar.com/library/PointBasedGlobalIlluminationForMovieProduction/paper.pdf

• "Point-Based Approximate Color Bleeding" Per H. Christensen
  • http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.162.3149&rep=rep1&type=pdf

• "Ray Tracing vs. Point-based GI for Animated Films" (Tabellion) SIGGRAPH 2010
  • slides: http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/gicourse2010/giai2010-04-eric_tabellion-slides.pdf
  • paper: http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/gicourse2010/giai2010-04-eric_tabellion-notes.pdf

• "Adding Real-Time Point-based GI to a Video Game - Lessons Learned" (Bunnell) SIGGRAPH 2010
  • slides: http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/gicourse2010/giai2010-05-michael_bunnell-slides.pdf
  • notes : http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/gicourse2010/giai2010-05-michael_bunnell-notes.pdf

• "Non Diffuse Point Based Global Illumination" Karsten Daemen
  • http://www.karstendaemen.com/thesis/files/rawdraft.pdf