Cutting edge global illumination acceleration

Cutting edge global illumination acceleration:

Bruce Walter, Sebastian Fernandez, Adam Arbree, Kavita Bala, Mike Donikian and Donald Greenberg. (2005). Lightcuts: A Scalable Approach to Illumination. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH, 1098-1107.

Milos Hasan, Fabio Pellacini, Kavita Bala. (2007). Matrix Row-Column Sampling for the Many Lights Problem. Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2007.

Ray Tracing

Ingo Wald, William R Mark, Johannes Gunther, Solomon Boulos, Thiago Ize, Warren Hunt, Steven G. Parker, Peter Shirley. (2007). State of the Art in Ray Tracing Animated Scenes. Eurographics State of the Art Reports.

Jensen, H. W. (2004). A practical guide to global illumination using ray tracing and photon mapping. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Course Notes. (This is better appreciated when seen as a movie. http://graphics.ucsd.edu/~henrik/animations/ and click on The Light of Mies van der Rohe. - Alex)