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This paper introduces a new multipass algorithm for efficiently computing direct illumination in scenes with many lights and complex occlusion. Images are first divided into 8times8 pixel blocks and for each point to be shaded within a block, a probability density function (PDF) is constructed over the lights and sampled to estimate illumination using a small number of shadow rays. Information from...