Precomputed radiance transfer for real-time rendering in dynamic, low-frequency lighting environments

• Peter-Pike Sloan

  Microsoft Research

• Jan Kautz

  Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik

• John Snyder

  Microsoft Research

抄録

We present a new, real-time method for rendering diffuse and glossy objects in low-frequency lighting environments that captures soft shadows, interreflections, and caustics. As a preprocess, a novel global transport simulator creates functions over the object's surface representing transfer of arbitrary, low-frequency incident lighting into transferred radiance which includes global effects like shadows and interreflections from the object onto itself. At run-time, these transfer functions are applied to actual incident lighting. Dynamic, local lighting is handled by sampling it close to the object every frame; the object can also be rigidly rotated with respect to the lighting and vice versa. Lighting and transfer functions are represented using low-order spherical harmonics. This avoids aliasing and evaluates efficiently on graphics hardware by reducing the shading integral to a dot product of 9 to 25 element vectors for diffuse receivers. Glossy objects are handled using matrices rather than vectors. We further introduce functions for radiance transfer from a dynamic lighting environment through a preprocessed object to neighboring points in space. These allow soft shadows and caustics from rigidly moving objects to be cast onto arbitrary, dynamic receivers. We demonstrate real-time global lighting effects with this approach.

収録刊行物

• ACM Transactions on Graphics

  ACM Transactions on Graphics 21 (3), 527-536, 2002-07

  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

キーワード

• Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

詳細情報

• CRID: 1360855570210032128
• NII論文ID: 30022063260
• DOI: 10.1145/566654.566612
• ISSN: 15577368
• ISSN: 07300301
• Web Site: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/566654.566612
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