Learn More About Reservoir Sampling in Free Ray Tracing Gems II Chapter

1 · NVIDIA Corporation · July 16, 2021, 7:07 p.m.
As the August 4 release date for Ray Tracing Gems II nears, NVIDIA is offering another free chapter from the book to celebrate. This time, the topic is reservoir sampling, which is a family of algorithms that, given a stream of N elements, randomly select a K-element subset in a single pass. Usually, K is defined as a small constant, but N need not be known in advance....