ILLUMINATING AND RENDERING HETEROGENEOUS PARTICIPATING MEDIA IN REAL TIME USING OPACITY PROPAGATION

Anthony Giroud, Venceslas Biri

2011

Abstract

We present a new approach to illuminate and render single scattering effects in heterogeneous participating media in real time. The medium’s density is modeled as a sum of radial basis functions, and is then sampled into a first volumetric grid. We then integrate the extinction function from each light source to each cell in the volume by a fast cell-to-cell propagation process on the GPU, and store the result in a second volume. We finally render both scattering medium and surfaces using a regular step ray-marching from the observer to the nearest surface. As we traverse the medium, we fetch data from both volumes and approximate a solution to the scattering equation. Our method is real-time, easy to implement and to integrate in a larger pipeline.

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Giroud A. and Biri V. (2011). ILLUMINATING AND RENDERING HETEROGENEOUS PARTICIPATING MEDIA IN REAL TIME USING OPACITY PROPAGATION . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-45-4, pages 113-118. DOI: 10.5220/0003374101130118


in Bibtex Style

@conference{grapp11,
author={Anthony Giroud and Venceslas Biri},
title={ILLUMINATING AND RENDERING HETEROGENEOUS PARTICIPATING MEDIA IN REAL TIME USING OPACITY PROPAGATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={113-118},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003374101130118},
isbn={978-989-8425-45-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2011)
TI - ILLUMINATING AND RENDERING HETEROGENEOUS PARTICIPATING MEDIA IN REAL TIME USING OPACITY PROPAGATION
SN - 978-989-8425-45-4
AU - Giroud A.
AU - Biri V.
PY - 2011
SP - 113
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0003374101130118