doi:10.1007/s42979-021-00632-6engMagallón, JuanBlesa, AlfonsoSerón, FranciscoSLM simulation and MonteCarlo path tracing for computer-generated hologramsART-2021-127954Computer holography is a growing research field that must pay attention to two main issues concerning computing effort: the visualization of a 3D virtual scene with photo-realistic quality and the bottleneck related to hologram digitizalition and visualization limits. This work shows a computational approach based on a Monte Carlo path-tracing algorithm, which accounts for both geometrical and physical phenomena involved in hologram generation, and, therefore, makes a feasible estimation of computing time costs. As these holograms also require yet unavailable visualization devices, their behavior needs to be simulated by computer techniques.2021http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/11205010.1007/s42979-021-00632-6http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/112050oai:zaguan.unizar.es:112050info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/T33-20DSN Computer Science 2, 3 (2021), 233byhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess